Know your Pay Equity obligations and deadlines
A reference guide for federally regulated employers
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- Guidance
- Pay Equity
- 31/05/2024
Paving the way to Pay Equity
The Pay Equity Commissioner’s 2023–2024 Annual Report to Parliament
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- Annual reports
- Pay Equity
- 06/06/2024
Comparing compensation – No. 4 What to do when the regression lines cross: The Equal Average, Segmented Line and Sum of Differences Methods
This Interpretation, Policy and Guideline (IPG) provides guidance on what to do when the initial regression lines cross when using the equal line method to compare the total compensation of predominantly male and predominantly female job classes
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- Interpretations, policies and guidelines
- Pay Equity
- 30/03/2024
Comparing compensation – No. 3 What to do when the regression lines cross: the modified version of the equal line method
This Interpretation, Policy and Guideline (IPG) provides guidance on what to do when the initial regression lines cross when using the equal line method to compare total compensation of predominantly male and predominantly female job classes
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- Interpretations, policies and guidelines
- Pay Equity
- 02/04/2024
Comparing compensation – No. 2 The application of the equal line method
This Interpretation, Policy and Guideline (IPG) provides guidance on the application of the equal line method prescribed in section 50 of the Pay Equity Act and section 12 of the Pay Equity Regulations
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- Interpretations, policies and guidelines
- Pay Equity
- 03/04/2024
Comparing compensation – No. 5 Guidance on the use of other methods to compare compensation
This Interpretation, Policy and Guideline (IPG) covers the following: Section 2.1: What to do if a pay equity committee determines that neither compensation comparison method prescribed in the Pay Equity Act can be used...
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- Interpretations, policies and guidelines
- Pay Equity
- 29/03/2024
Comparing compensation – No. 1 The application of the equal average method
This Interpretation, Policy and Guideline (IPG) provides guidance on the application of the equal average method prescribed in section 49 of the Pay Equity Act (the Act) through the following steps: Step 1: Create bands of comparable values of work and identify all of the predominantly female and predominantly male job classes that are in the same band...
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- Interpretations, policies and guidelines
- Pay Equity
- 04/04/2024
Developing Value-of-Work Bands
An employer or pay equity committee that chooses to use the equal average method for the purpose of comparing compensation is required to create value-of-work bands. This document offers promising practices to help employers and pay equity committees establish value-of-work bands for all of their job classes.
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- Interpretations, policies and guidelines
- Pay Equity
- 28/03/2024
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- Annual reports
- Pay Equity
- 28/06/2023
Definition of Employee - Interpretations, Policies and Guidelines
This document provides interpretative guidance on the term “employee” defined in section 3(1) of the Pay Equity Act (the Act). To foster a common understanding of who is an “employee” under the Act
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- Interpretations, policies and guidelines
- Pay Equity
- 29/06/2021