January 17, 2008
Pay equity court hearings finally scheduled
Almost eight years after the PSAC filed a Statement of Claim for pay equity on behalf of current and former members working for a number of separate employers, the case is finally going to court.
The Federal Court (Trial Division) has set aside 40 days, starting October 20, 2008, to hear the case. The hearings come after an extended period of Discovery as well as a series of unsuccessful legal challenges by the federal government to have the case dismissed.
The Claim was filed in November 2000 and covers the Auditor General, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), the Communications Security Establishment, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, Statistical Survey Operations and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (formerly the Medical Research Council). Current and former members affected are those in the CR, DA-CON, ST, and LS classifications, as well as those in the PE group at the Office of the Auditor General.
A separate complaint to the Canadian Human Rights Commission concerning a much larger number of separate employers is still in abeyance pending the outcome of this case.
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