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Canada’s richest province is shortchanging female
workers to the tune of $78 million, leaving its government open to
another Charter of Rights challenge on pay equity, says the Canadian
Centre for Policy Alternatives.
A CCPA study says that the Ontario Liberal government
of Dalton McGuinty
is ignoring its own pay equity law by failing to pay the adjustments owed
to working women, and that could prompt legal action which forced a
previous government to pay up.
In a message so-called “post-feminists” need to hear,
lawyer Mary Cornish and author of the study stated, “Women still earn 29
per cent less than men.”
The Liberals have racked up a budget surplus on the
backs of female child-care and community health workers. By 2011, she
said the Liberals will owe $467 million in pay equity adjustments if they
don’t correct the situation now.
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