PSAC Pay Equity Bulletin

No decision yet in taxation of interest payments case

PSAC’s challenge of the government’s practice of taxing the interest payments received by many of our current and former members as part of the pay equity complaint settlement was heard in the the Tax Court on January 18 and 19, 2005.

The judge hearing the case indicated that it might be some time before a decision was issued. Information will be posted on the union’s web site when the decision is issued.

No word yet from the Human Rights Commission on arrears interest case

The union is still waiting to hear from the Canadian Human Rights Commission on our complaint that the high rate of arrears interest charged by the Canada Revenue Agency when pay equity adjustments were carried back to the year in which the money should have been received is discriminatory. The CHRC had initially dismissed the complaint with no explanation or analysis to support their dismissal. In December 2004, the Federal Court (Trial Division) allowed the PSAC’s judicial review and referred the complaint back to the Commission.

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