“I think it might have been more prescriptive and more time-consuming than some workplace parties might have anticipated.”
So says Jennifer Hodgins, partner at Norton Rose Fulbright in Toronto, in discussing the new rules around pay equity coming into force for federally regulated employers on Sept. 3.
“There’s a lot of learning being done by all parties about the act, its requirements, how it’s going to be interpreted and so all of that makes this a process that is a bit more challenging than it would be if we were dealing with legislation that had been in place a long time and employers that were familiar with this type of prescriptive pay equity regime.”
