PEHT Case No: 2001-18-PE
Glen Hill Terrace Christian Homes Inc., Applicant v Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Locals 2225-06/12 and 5110, Respondent v Pay Equity Office, Participating Nursing Homes, Ontario Public Services Employees Union, Attorney General on behalf of the Crown in Right of Ontario, Equal Pay Coalition and the Ontario Federation of Labour, Service Employees International Union, Local 1, Ontario Agencies Supporting Individuals with Special Needs, Ontario Long Term Care Association, and Ontario Nurses' Association, Intervenors
BEFORE: M. David Ross, Chair
DECISION OF THE TRIBUNAL: February 29, 2024
1This is an application under the Pay Equity Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.P.7, as amended (“the Act”).
2Section 4.2 of the Statutory Powers Procedure Act permits a single presiding officer to decide this procedural or interlocutory matter.
3It its decision dated November 3, 2023, the Tribunal held at paragraph 14:
Lastly, the Tribunal has intentionally built in sufficient time in its September 15, 2023, decision for the parties to consider the issues and other parties’ submissions, receive instructions, and file their submissions. Extensions will not be granted barring an extraordinary circumstance that persuades the Tribunal to grant an extension.
4An intervenor has requested an extension to the March 1, 2024 deadline regarding the scope of the intervention. The reason for the request is to review documents that were provided by the Tribunal. Those documents were provided so the intervenors have information.
5In my view, the documents provided to the parties can provide information with respect to their submissions (that have yet to be ordered) on the issue of how the proxy method should be used in the pay equity maintenance process. Another intervenor has already filed its submissions without the benefit of reviewing the documents provided.
6The Tribunal finds that the provision of the pleadings/submissions as they pertained to the issue decided by the Tribunal on November 23, 2021 (which does not pertain to the issue of how the proxy method used in the maintenance process) does not constitute an extraordinary circumstance that persuades it to grant an extension as per paragraph 14 of its November 3, 2023 decision and the timelines set out in its September 15, 2023 will remain as directed.
“M. David Ross” M. David Ross, Chair