Complete list of publications on this web site
Before you begin - what you need to know
- Guideline # 1 - Introduction to Pay Equity
HTML | PDF - Note 1: Federal vs provincially regulated employers
HTML | PDF - Note 2: Public sector employers
HTML | PDF - Note 3: If your company is unionized
HTML | PDF - Case Study - The "Space Toy Co."
If you are implementing pay equity now - Case Study - The "Space Toy Co."
A brief overview of the steps to achieving and maintaining pay equity - Case Study - The "Space Toy Co."
Deadlines - Job-to-Job method - Case Study - The "Space Toy Co."
Deadlines - Proportional Value method
Case studies and overviews
- Case Study - The "Space Toy Co."
Contents of the case study - Case Study - The "Space Toy Co."
Overview of the steps to achieving and maintaining pay equity - Case Study - The "Space Toy Co."
Steps to Proportional Value - Overview of Job Evaluation
- Overview of Proportional Value and Regression Analysis
- Pay Equity: An Overview for Employees
HTML | PDF - 10 steps to pay equity
Committees, consultants and H.R. professionals / Working through the process
- Case Study - The "Space Toy Co."
About pay equity committees - Case Study - The "Space Toy Co."
Terms of reference for a pay equity committee - Tasks and responsibilities for a pay equity committee
HTML | PDF - Terms of reference for a pay equity committee
HTML | PDF - Tips for your pay equity committee
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Communication and information
Initial decisions and determinations
- Case Study - The "Space Toy Co."
Employees - Who's covered and who's not
Who is the employer - Guideline # 2 - Determination of Employer and Employee
HTML | PDF - Guideline # 3 - Pay Equity Posting and Achievement Dates for Private Sector Employers
HTML | PDF - Guideline # 4 - Definition of Establishment
HTML | PDF - Guideline # 5 - Determining Job Class
HTML | PDF - Guideline # 6 - Using the "Group of Jobs" Approach
HTML | PDF - Guideline # 7 - Determining the Gender Predominance of Job Classes
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Deadlines
Establishments
Job class and gender
Gender neutrality
- Commonly Overlooked Features of Work
HTML | PDF - Guideline # 9 - Gender Neutral Job Comparison
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Job evaluation
- Case Study - The "Space Toy Co."
Introduction to job evaluation - Collecting job information using a questionnaire
HTML | PDF - Commonly Overlooked Features of Work
HTML | PDF - Glossary of Active Verbs for use in Writing or Amending Job Descriptions
HTML | PDF - Guide to Collecting Job Information
HTML | PDF - Guideline # 8 - Disclosing Information
HTML | PDF - Guideline # 9 - Gender Neutral Job Comparison
HTML | PDF - Overview of Job Evaluation
Tools
- Pay Equity Quiz
- Tool: Create a Weighting Formula / 10 subfactors
- Tool: Create a Weighting Formula / 11 subfactors
- Tool: Regression Line Calculator: Proportional Value Method
- Tool: Regression Line Calculator: Proxy Comparison Method
- Tool: JCT / Job Comparison tool
- Women and Work Quiz
- Compliance Self-Audit / Checklist and Responses (Private Sector)
PDF | MS Word
Comparing jobs and adjusting rates
- Case Study - The "Space Toy Co."
Job-to-job comparisons - Case Study - The "Space Toy Co."
About regression analysis - Guideline # 10 - Which Job Classes to Compare
HTML | PDF - Guideline # 11 - Determining Job Rate
HTML | PDF - Guideline # 12 - Permissible Differences in Compensation
HTML | PDF - Guideline # 13 - Pay Equity Adjustments
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Pay equity plans
- Example of a Job-to-Job Pay Equity Plan
HTML | PDF - Example of a Pay Equity Plan, amended for Proportional Value
HTML | PDF - Guideline # 14 - Pay Equity Plans
HTML | PDF - Pay Equity: The Proxy Comparison Method
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Complaints, confidentiality and reprisals
- Application for Review Services Form
PDF | MS Word - Guide to filling out the "Application for Review Services" form
HTML | PDF - Case Study - The "Space Toy Co."
Complaints and objections
The complaint process - Guideline # 15 - Dispute Resolution I - Review Services
HTML | PDF - Guideline # 16 - Dispute Resolution II - Pay Equity Hearings Tribunal
HTML | PDF - Making Objections or Complaints for Employees not in a Union
HTML | PDF - Pay Equity in Non-Union Workplaces: "Is the Law Working for You?"
HTML | PDF - The Role of a Review Officer in Dealing with Non-Union Objections and Complaints
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The objection process
Maintaining pay equity / Jobs change
- Case Study - The "Space Toy Co."
Introduction to maintaining pay equity - Case Study - The "Space Toy Co."
Maintenance scenarios - Maintaining Pay Equity Using the Proxy Comparison Method
HTML | PDF - Pay Equity: Public Sector Restructuring
HTML | PDF - Pay Equity: Sale of Business
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Monitoring 2007
Newsletters
Other information
- Guideline # 1 - Introduction
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- Guideline # 2 - Determination of Employer and Employee
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- Guideline # 3 - Pay Equity Posting and Achievement Dates for Private Sector Employers
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- Guideline # 4 - Definition of Establishment
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- Guideline # 5 - Determining Job Class
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- Guideline # 6 - Using the "Group of Jobs" Approach
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- Guideline # 7 - Determining the Gender Predominance of Job Classes
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- Guideline # 8 - Disclosing Information
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- Guideline # 9 - Gender Neutral Job Comparison
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- Guideline # 10 - Which Job Classes to Compare
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- Guideline # 11 - Determining Job Rate
HTML | PDF
- Guideline # 12 - Permissible Differences in Compensation
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- Guideline # 13 - Pay Equity Adjustments
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- Guideline # 14 - Pay Equity Plans
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- Guideline # 15 - Dispute Resolution I - Review Services
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- Guideline # 16 - Dispute Resolution II - Pay Equity Hearings Tribunal
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- Pay Equity and Equal Pay: What's the Difference?
HTML | PDF - Pay Equity: An Overview for Employees
HTML | PDF - Pay Equity in Non-Union Workplaces: "Is the Law Working for You?"
HTML | PDF - Monitoring the Progress of Pay Equity
HTML | PDF - Notice of Inability to Achieve Pay Equity
MSWord | PDF - Postcard: Fairness Pays
Front/GIF | Back/GIF - Poster: Women's Work
GIF | PDF - Publication order form
- Index of publications on this website
Links / General
- equal pay for equal work - under the Employment Standards Act, men and women receive equal pay when doing the same job or substantially the same job, such as two cooks, or two machine operators on the same line;
- employment standards - this legislation deals with situations such as minimum wage, hours of work, severance pay and pregnancy leave;
- human rights - this legislation deals with discrimination because of age, sex, race or any other ground covered by the Act, (this law also addresses pay equity for employees of the federal government as well as employees who work for federally regulated industries);
- employment insurance - this program provides temporary financial assistance for unemployed Canadians while they look for work or upgrade their skills. Canadians who are sick, pregnant or caring for a newborn or adopted child, as well as those who must care for a family member who is seriously ill with a significant risk of death, may also be assisted by Employment Insurance.

