The Employer applied to revoke a Review Officer's order requiring it to pay the female job class of registered nurses an additional $0.37 per hour.
The Tribunal upheld the Review Officer's finding that subsection 13(10) of the Pay Equity Act requires pay equity adjustments to be incorporated into the collective agreement rate, and that subsequent negotiated increases must be calculated on the adjusted rate.
The Tribunal also found that the Employer failed to maintain pay equity under subsection 7(1) by giving the male comparator job class a smaller wage increase than other non-union staff, which artificially held back the nurses' job rate.
