New Brunswick’s Pay Equity Act came into force in April 2010 and various public sector groups have since achieved equal pay for work of equal value.
Coalition for Pay Equity president Frances LeBlanc says things could always move faster but she’s pleased school support workers along with specialized health care and medical science professionals have been added to the list at $8.4 million over a ten year period (retroactive to 2012).
#NB #payequity coalition president Frances LeBlanc calls govt announcement “great progress”, waiting since 2010, about 1,000 women affected pic.twitter.com/fAjGVcVvpb
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“So it’s really great to see progress from the government as well as making sure a fairly large number of workers (about 1,000) will be affected by this change”.
LeBlanc says her organization will continue striving for pay equity for teachers, institutional care workers, Crown corporation employees and non-unionized government workers.
