Establishments

Employers like STC could choose to combine all their Ontario locations together to do pay equity; deal with the locations separately; or combine a few and separate the rest.

The law

The Act states that the establishment is all the employees of an employer who work in a geographic division:

STC's establishments

All of STC's locations were in different regional municipalities. STC could have chosen to make each location into a single establishment or combined some or all of them together.

STC made the following choices:

Establishment # 1: Toronto
(One location in the Greater Toronto Area - Head Office)
STC decided that Toronto Head Office should have its own establishment.

Establishment # 2: Belleville and Kingston
(One location in Belleville - Plant; and
two locations in Kingston - Plant and a 10-person office)
The Belleville and Kingston plants may be in separate geographic divisions, but they share the same Human Resources director and staff. STC felt it made sense to combine these two locations into one establishment.

Establishment # 3: Sarnia
(One location in Sarnia - Plant)
Sarnia's plant is a unique high tech work environment and has enough male job classes to serve as comparators for the female job classes at that location. Therefore, Sarnia was deemed to be one establishment.

Where to go from here

STC had now separated their Ontario locations into three groups, or establishments. This meant that each establishment (Toronto, Kingston/Belleville and Sarnia) was now to proceed on their own to provide pay equity for their employees. Their first decision was to determine how many plans were required per establishment.

Go to the next page for information on determining the number of plans for each establishment.