{"id":2359,"date":"2017-04-11T11:23:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T15:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=2359"},"modified":"2017-04-12T11:24:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T15:24:38","slug":"statement-from-ontario-ndp-womens-issues-critic-peggy-sattler-on-equal-pay-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/11\/statement-from-ontario-ndp-womens-issues-critic-peggy-sattler-on-equal-pay-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement from Ontario NDP Women\u2019s Issues Critic Peggy Sattler on Equal Pay Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0Apr 11, 2017 @ 11:23<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cToday, as we mark Equal Pay Day again in Ontario, it\u2019s necessary to recommit ourselves to the fight for women\u2019s economic empowerment and basic fairness.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>This year\u2019s sunshine list revealed that among government employees in Ontario, there is still a massive wage gap.\u00a0 Only 25 per cent of the most recent sunshine list was made up of women. In some fields \u2013 like at Ontario Power Generation \u2013 it\u2019s much worse.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Pay Equity Commission, whose job it is to enforce pay equity compliance, had its funding cut in half in 1997 by the Conservative government. And the Wynne Liberals have flat-lined the budget for the last decade so that today, more than half of all Ontario employers are not complying with their pay equity obligations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Premier Wynne\u2019s Liberal government is refusing to lead by example. We know women are equally capable of leadership roles. We know women are often equally performing leadership tasks in their workplaces. Premier Wynne needs to explain why they aren\u2019t being paid equally.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>On Equal Pay Day 2017, we call on Premier Wynne to properly fund the Pay Equity Commission.\u00a0 We call on her government to do better when it comes to promoting women into positions of leadership and authority within the public sector and we call on the Premier to immediately implement the Equal Pay Coalition\u2019s 12 recommendations to close the gender pay gap.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Ontario NDP knows women have the skills \u2013 it\u2019s time they have equal access to the opportunities, recognition and compensation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Apr 11, 2017 @ 11:23 \u201cToday, as we mark Equal Pay Day again in Ontario, it\u2019s necessary to recommit ourselves to the fight for women\u2019s economic empowerment and basic fairness. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,38],"tags":[315],"class_list":["post-2359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-provincial","tag-equal-pay-day"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 05:58:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2360,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions\/2360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}