Tag: Pay equity
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OPS Unified – Pay Equity Update
Greetings! Your OPSEU/SEFPO OPS Unified Pay Equity team is in the process of evaluating the Position Information Questionnaire responses received during the pilot phase of the project. We are very much looking forward to the mass roll-out in the spring of 2025 where we hope to encourage our OPS Unified members to participate and provide the…
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OPSEU/SEFPO Central Participating Hospitals HPD Pay Equity Plan
Update as of June 7, 2023: Clarification on Concerns and Process Going Forward There are some common questions and concerns being raised based on Hospitals’ delay implementing the agreed upon Pay Equity Plan (“Plan”) and the Go-Forward adjustments that were supposed to take place as of April 1st 2023. We hope we can resolve these…
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OPS Unified pay equity: what you need to know
Official Position Information Questionnaire (PIQ) Launch! – October 2025 Your OPSEU/SEFPO OPS Unified Pay Equity team is excited to announce the official launch of the OPS Unified Pay Equity Position Information Questionnaire (PIQ)! Our official bulletin outlines how members were selected, what to do if you weren’t selected but want to volunteer and why your…
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Central HPD Pay Equity Process and New Central HPD Pay Equity Plan: FAQs
Q1: What is the new Central Participating Hospitals HPD Pay Equity Plan? Answer: OPSEU/SEFPO and the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) have been engaged in active negotiations on pay equity for the last decade, with the goal to reach a pay equity plan for all HPD positions currently covered by HPD central bargaining. In 2020, the parties reached an impasse and the Union…
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OPSEU/SEFPO Hospital Professionals Division achieve progress for Pay Equity
A significant milestone has been achieved in the nearly 20-year fight to achieve pay equity for thousands of members in OPSEU/SEFPO’s Hospital Professionals Division (HPD). The union and the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) have come to an agreement over male comparators in disputed pay bands, avoiding a lengthy Pay Equity Tribunal process. The two parties…
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Equal Pay Day: The job is far from done
We are taking time on this Equal Pay Day to reflect on how far we’ve come to ensure women are treated equally, but we’re also thinking about how much more must be done. Equal Pay Day aims to draw attention to the gap that still exists between wages for men and women and speaks to…
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Equal Pay Coalition hosting Ontario Party Leaders Debate
OPSEU/SEFPO is proud to be a member of the Equal Pay Coalition, a group of over 50 trade unions, women’s organizations, worker movements, professional organizations, community organizations and businesses seeking to end gender pay discrimination and close the gender pay gap. The date chosen for Equal Pay Day symbolizes how far into the year the…
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Update to HPD members re pay equity
Dear HPD members, Following our communication dated December 3, 2021, your union has been working diligently to respond to the Pay Equity Commission’s refusal to address outstanding issues related to the Central HPD Pay Equity Plan. On March 22, 2022, OPSEU/SEFPO submitted a formal application on these outstanding areas of dispute to the Pay Equity…
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OPSEU/SEFPO celebrates Equality Day
Every year on April 17 Canadians celebrate Equality Day, which marks the day that Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms was signed along with its landmark provisions guaranteeing equality under the law. The “equality provisions” were enshrined in our laws to ensure that everyone is entitled to the same fundamental human rights – the right…
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Thank you! Women make our workplaces stronger: International Women’s Day 2019
OPSEU Celebrates International Women’s Day A message from OPSEU’s President and First Vice-President/Treasurer: On this International Women’s Day we honour all women both inside and outside of OPSEU – including women in the province of Ontario, across Canada, and around the world for the endless contributions they make to their workplaces, families, and to their…
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Zero Discrimination Day targets unjust laws
It’s 2019 – any discrimination is too much discrimination. So today, the UN’s Zero Discrimination Day, we reaffirm our union’s commitment to eliminating discrimination in all its forms. Discrimination is a scourge. The people targeted by discrimination are robbed of dignity, equality, and opportunity. In other words, they are robbed of a fair…
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A major victory for Equal Pay and Pay Transparency!
"We are asking you to make it a priority to ensure that no woman is left behind and that the transparency act actually forces our employers to address the gap that exists. We agree that it has been discriminatory, and again, the group of people who are most affected are the people who can’t fight…
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It’s 2018, time to close the pay gap
Friends, its Equal Pay Day today, the date on the calendar that sets how far into the year that women must work to catch up with how much men made last year. It’s time to raise the bar for women and close the gap. We at OPSEU have been leading the fight to achieve pay…
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Show us the Money! – Equal Pay Day Events
On average, women must work 15.5 months to make what a man does in 12 months. That's why we're marking #EqualPayDay on Tuesday April 10. OPSEU is calling on the Ontario and federal governments to #ShowUsTheMoney with strong #paytransparency and #payequity legislation. We're #donewaiting for governments and employers to close the #genderpaygap. Please also…