Etiket: equity
Montreal West Island CIUSSS | Pay equity checks canceled without notice
(Montreal) Former health workers in West Montreal had their recent pay equity payment denied by the bank, after the CIUSSS de l’Ouest-de-l’Île-de-Montréal ruled to cancel without notice to the recipients…
Stanley February | Equity, one step at a time
Stanley February has made justice the spearhead of his artistic practice. Working to ensure that artists of diversity obtain the visibility to which they are entitled in the world of…
Replica | Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Naming the Issues Recognizes the Barriers
In response to Stephan Fogaing’s text, “Equity, diversity and inclusion: hell is paved with good intentions”, published on May 28 Posted at 12:00 p.m. Hajar Jerroumi Human rights lawyer and…
The ambition of educational equity | The Press
In 2018, I proposed to subsidize 100% private schools that would waive the selection of their students. Posted yesterday at 2:00 p.m. Camil Bouchard Ex-president of the Working group for…
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion | Hell is paved with good intentions
Under the dumbfounded gaze of many Quebecers, the “politics of identities” (identity politics), imported from the United States, maintains its pressure on the last North American bastion that still dares…
[Opinion] The long and delicate march towards equity in our universities
Professor in the Science and Technology Department at TELUQ University. The author signs this text with five professor-researchers on behalf of more than 70 members of teaching and research establishments…
Late Pay Equity Payments | Unions want to get a payment date
(Montreal) Thousands of health care workers are getting impatient with the ongoing delays in pay equity payments. Amounts of up to $52,000 are owed to several of them. The unions…
[Éditorial de Brian Myles] Diversity and Equity in Media Funding
Federal Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez tabled his ambitious bill on Tuesday that will force Google and Facebook to compensate news media for the circulation of journalistic content on their platforms.…
In 25 years, the Pay Equity Act has taken women “giant steps”
This text is part of the special Syndicalism booklet Roses in hand, hundreds of Quebec women marched 200 kilometers against poverty and raised demands for greater equality between men and…
The Pay Equity Act is essential, but perfectible
This text is part of the special Syndicalism booklet There is no doubt in Robert Comeau’s mind that the Pay Equity Act was and still is an essential instrument in…
The CSD questions the place of the Pay Equity Act today
This text is part of the special Syndicalism booklet Discrimination based on sex, flexibility of schedules, parental leave, difference between equity and equality, the Pay Equity Act has raised many…
The Parti Québécois wants to “restore teeth” to the Pay Equity Act
With the fall election approaching, the Parti Québécois (PQ) believes it is time to reform the Pay Equity Act, tabled over a quarter of a century ago by Minister Louise…
Equity and Consistency for Students from Africa
For the past few weeks, the university and college world and several elected officials in the country have been reacting strongly, with good reason, to the abnormally high rate of…
we explain the “principle of equity” of speaking time between candidates
The questioning comes back every five years, at each presidential election. How is the exposure of the different candidates on radio and television calculated? From January 1 until March 27,…
Maintaining the pace, it would take another 50 years to achieve pay equity in Quebec
Three years after the adoption of the pay equity law, the hourly pay gap between men and women is 8%. “If we report it over a full year, we can…
Fair Directors | Towards equity in the cinema?
The results of a new study on parity in Quebec fictional cinema were unveiled on Tuesday at noon. Posted on November 30, 2021 at 6:11 p.m. Luc Boulanger Press If…
Pay Equity Act | Twenty-five years later, a gap remains
A quarter of a century after the adoption of the Pay Equity Act, a gap remains between predominantly male jobs and those predominantly female and it will be the most…
The limits of the Pay Equity Act
As we know, the Pay Equity Act is based on the idea that, for work of equivalent value between the groups of women and men concerned, identical salary treatment is…
25 years of the Pay Equity Act | There is still a long way to go
November 21, 1996 was a milestone. It is indeed the day when the parliamentarians of the National Assembly unanimously adopted the Pay Equity Act. It aimed to reduce the inequalities…
Pay equity is not just about hourly wages, according to the CSD
This text is part of the special Syndicalism section On November 21, the Pay Equity Act will blow out its 25th anniversary. After several decades of debate on equality between…