Putting fairness back into women's pay

Pay equity is good for business ignoring their obligation to pay women fairly, and the govern- and society. [...] The median income of retired women is almost half that of older men and 42% of elderly women are • Pay equity adjustments are still owed to hundreds of thou- poor. [...] These workers have not had Strengthening and revitalizing pay equity enforcement re- the benefit of a union and have lacked a properly funded Pay quires the Ontario 2008 budget to address the following three Equity Act enforcement regime to help them. [...] But with the end of the Charter settle- ment payments in 2005, the Liberal government failed to con- 3. Restoration of Commission and Tribunal Funding tinue dedicated funding for the pay equity adjustments that The Commission and the Tribunal have had their funding and remained owing to close the identified gaps. [...] These women are far from achieving pay equity, 1992–03, the Pay Equity Commission and Tribunal employed and at the same time are seeing themselves fall far behind and appointed 86 people and relied upon 28 review officers for their comparators in the public sector.