Pay equity - Canada moves back, U.S. forward By: martin dufresne (15 replies) January 29, 2009 - 6:26pm
- Dr. Dawg provides some By: pogge (Mar 7 2009 - 7:41pm)
- Michelle wrote:Is there any By: Bärlüer (Mar 7 2009 - 6:32pm)
- Refuge wrote: I don't know By: Refuge (Mar 4 2009 - 9:27am)
- The fight to keep pay equity By: martin dufresne (Mar 3 2009 - 10:57am)
- The punitive measures By: radiorahim (Feb 26 2009 - 12:21am)
- Here it is from the By: Refuge (Feb 25 2009 - 8:32pm)
- Does anyone have the exact By: Unionist (Feb 25 2009 - 10:48am)
- Refuge wrote: yeah, IMO I By: It's Me D (Feb 25 2009 - 10:45am)
- yeah, IMO I think that is By: Refuge (Feb 25 2009 - 10:32am)
- Re: Pay equity - Canada moves back, U.S. forward By: Stargazer (Feb 25 2009 - 10:06am)
- Michelle wrote: Is there By: Refuge (Feb 25 2009 - 9:53am)
- Re: Pay equity - Canada moves back, U.S. forward By: Michelle (Feb 25 2009 - 8:37am)
- The way our system works is, By: Maysie (Feb 25 2009 - 7:20am)
- So this means that a human By: Pride for Red Dolores (Feb 25 2009 - 1:46am)
- The more I think about this By: Loretta (Feb 15 2009 - 8:44pm)
Is there any way to challenge this in court, on constitutional grounds?
If you are talking the decision to take away the panel, no, it was put in by the government and so can be taken away by the government.
If you are talking women getting equal pay, yes. The way that is worked before was that women on an individual basis had to fight through the court system to get equeal pay for their job. When they finally got to the top it had taken so long that most times they were no longer even at their jobs.
What was formed was a Human Rights Commission so that woman could go directly there and get a much faster response than spending the time and money in court.
The Harper government wants to take out this commission so that women have to go back to the courts to fight for their rights on an individuall basis again.
They would never be able to take away a womans right to fight through the court system and recieve equal pay (this is the law) the way the system is set up right now the government can't change judges rulings.