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Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value

27 Mar 2021

The ILO highlighted the "importance of taking appropriate measures to secure the effective application of the principle"14 at the General Conference held in the same year. [...] (2) In assessing the value of work performed by employees employed in the same establishment, the criterion to be applied is the composite of the skill, effort and responsibility required in the performance of the work and the conditions under which the work is performed. [...] The CHRC has submitted its own definition of value: Value of work is the value which the work performed by an employee in a given establishment represents in relation to the value of the work of another employee, or a group of employees, the value being determined on the basis of approved criteria, without the wage or negotiated wage rates being taken into account.34 Their interpretation contains. [...] Policy makers have decided that leaving the determination of female wages to the labour market is not "fair." In effect, the legislation: challenges the economic principle of supply and demand, considering that it has been distorted in its application to the wage market because the methods used to categorize the wage market were developed on the basis of unbalanced factors.35 The alternative measu. [...] First, the salary line of the HR positions was plotted on a graph, using the evaluations of the Aiken plan as one variable and the mid-point salary of the HR positions as the other variable.
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Authors

Marilee Marcotte;Queen's University IRC

Pages
61
Published in
Canada
Title in English
A QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY IRC ARCHIVE DOCUMENT [from PDF fonts]