Diane Stewart Rose

The applicant union sought a determination that the Community Relations Officer (CRO) job class was a 'female job class' under the Pay Equity Act, challenging a 1995 deemed approved pay equity plan that classified it as gender neutral.

The Tribunal applied a reasonableness standard of review to the plan.

Finding that both present and historical incumbency supported the gender neutral classification, and that the applicant failed to provide sufficient evidence that the original negotiators ignored gender stereotypes in the field of work, the Tribunal dismissed the application.