The only document guiding the province's pay equity efforts is a 186-word letter sent by a deputy minister to the Human Resources Secretariat in 2018 seeking to establish an interdepartmental committee. nlpoli By JuanitaMercer_ SaltWire
Pam Parsons is minister responsible for women and gender equality. A pay equity committee led by her department has been working without any terms of reference since 2018. -SaltWire Network file photoA committee struck in 2018 to look at pay equity in the province does not have any terms of reference guiding its work.
“I request your assistance identifying relevant staff in your department to meet on this topic in the near future. Once those staff have been identified, the Women’s Policy Office will work to co-ordinate a meeting of all involved. Thank you in advance for your assistance in this matter.”SaltWire Network confirmed with an Office of Women and Gender Equality spokesperson that there are no formal terms of reference guiding the committee’s work; the letter is the only such document.
Newfoundland and Labrador is the only Atlantic Canadian province without pay equity legislation. The others enacted legislation in the late 1980s.
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