Closing the Gender Wage Gap

In 2015, the Ministry of Labour launched a special advisory panel to make recommendations on “Closing the Gender Wage Gap” in Ontario. The government has sought input from both organizations and individuals on strategies to eliminate the gap of up to 31.5% between the incomes of men and women.

AMAPCEO has participated in the consultation by attending in person sessions with the panel and has submitted recommendations to the panel. View AMAPCEO’s submission. The submission focuses on unionization as a key lever available to promote gender pay equity – as made clear in the panel’s consultation paper.

To promote increased unionization and pay equity, AMAPCEO offers two recommendations:

1. Return to what was the status quo in Ontario for more than 40 years and reintroduce “Card Check” certification to form a union; and
2. Reduce the number of Ontarians excluded from unionizing under the Ontario Labour Relations Act, including by reworking the overly broad definition of “managers” and permitting professional groups including doctors, lawyers, dentists, architects and land surveyors, as well as domestic workers, hunters and trappers and horticulturalists – among others -  to unionize if they so choose.