What are your thoughts on
“Closing the Gap: The Importance of Pay Equity in the Workplace” ?
discuss below.
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Our organization has focused much attention in the last few years on pay equity to ensure that wages are fair and equitable. I think that some industries are closer than others but overall there is still a long way to go to closing the wage gap.
Agree! Thanks for your comment, Denise 😊
One of the first places that I worked (many years ago) was in Municipal Government and we had published pay grids. The transparency provided the entire staff the opportunity to know their wage potential within a certain role. I didn’t realized at the time that this was not common practice in Alberta.
Thanks, Lisa, for your comment!
Next week we’re sharing information about British Columbia’s New Pay Transparency Act which goes in this direction.
132 years is mind numbing and reaffirms that so much more work and education needs to be done, if it’s estimated it will take 132 years to close the gender pay gap if present trends continue.