PAY EQUITY HEARINGS TRIBUNAL
PEHT Case No: 2872-19-PE
Tina Lahtinen, Applicant v Corporation of the City of Thunder Bay, Respondent
BEFORE: M. David Ross, Chair
DECISION OF THE TRIBUNAL: February 12, 2020
This is an application under the Pay Equity Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P.7 as amended (“the Act”), in which the applicant has asserted that her job was not evaluated properly, and that a different male comparator should have been chosen by the respondent.
The respondent has submitted that the applicant has not set out a prima facie case of a violation of the Act. The respondent has filed detailed submissions in support of its request at paragraphs 57 to 86 of its Schedule “A” to its response.
Both parties have consented to this application being heard by a single presiding officer.
The Tribunal is not prepared to consider the respondent’s request to dismiss this application on a prima facie basis without providing the applicant with an opportunity to respond. Accordingly, the applicant is directed to file any submissions that she wishes the Tribunal to consider, and to provide a copy of those submissions to the respondent, by no later than 5:00 p.m. on March 2, 2020. The respondent is directed to file nothing further at this time. The Tribunal will consider any submissions filed in due course.
If the Tribunal does not receive any submissions pursuant to the direction, above, it may consider the respondent’s request without further notice to the parties. This may result in the application being dismissed for failing to plead a prima facie breach of the Act.
"M. David Ross"____
M. David Ross, Chair