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9. What amount in pay equity increases would Janet be entitled to?

Janet works in a residence for children with developmental disabilities. She, and others doing the same job, are paid $8.00 per hour. Nobody in her workplace has ever received a pay equity adjustment. Janet knows employees in a similar agency who have a proxy pay equity plan, and who have received adjustments of $1.25 per hour, bringing their rate from $10.00 per hour to $11.25 per hour. Based on this information, what amount in pay equity increases would Janet be entitled to?
	Janet is entitled to a rate of $11.25 per hour an increase of $3.25, as all broader public sector employers in the area must go to the same target rate.
	Janet is entitled to an increase of $1.25 per hour, as all broader public sector employers in the area must give the same increases.
	Janet is entitled to a pay equity increase. The exact amount will be set out in her employer’s proxy pay equity plan.
	Janet’s entitlement, if any, will be set out in her employer’s pay equity plan, if it was required to do one.

(a) Try Again
Try again. The outcome of one employer’s pay equity plan might be similar to another one in the same kind of establishment, but this is not always the case. Each employer, if required, does their own pay equity plan and adjustments may differ. (b) Try Again
The outcome of one employer’s pay equity plan might be similar to another one in the same kind of establishment, but this is not always the case. Each employer, if required, does their own pay equity plan and adjustments may differ. (c) Try Again
While this answer may usually be correct, from the information provided, we can not determine if her employer was required to prepare a proxy pay equity plan or if her job class would have been entitled to an adjustment. If adjustments were required, these amounts would be set out in the employer's plan. (d) Correct
From the information provided we can not determine if Janet will receive an adjustment. Some broader public sector employers, namely those that were not in existence on July 1, 1993, and those that had sufficient male job classes to do a pay equity plan using the job to job and/or proportional value method of comparison, could not do pay equity plans using the proxy method of comparison.