Pay Equity

Greetings! Your OPSEU/SEFPO OPS Unified Pay Equity team is in the process of evaluating the Position Information Questionnaire responses received during the pilot phase of the project. We are very much looking forward to the mass roll-out in the spring of 2025 where we hope to encourage our OPS Unified members to participate and provide the...

PDF of full wage grid, including pay equity and arbitration increases 2022-2025 arbitration decision The Kaplan General Wage increases awarded to OPSEU/SEFPO Hospital Professionals at Central Participating Hospitals have required changes to the Pay Equity compliant rates. These new pay-equity compliant rates are below The Kaplan award wage increases: April 1, 2022 – Additional 3.75%...

According to Pay Equity legislation, positions with similar duties and responsibilities, similar qualifications, similar recruitment practices and same compensation are grouped together as one job class. From there, the Skill, Effort and Responsibility inherent in each job class and the working conditions under which the work is performed is valued and compared in a gender...

Q1: What is the new Central Participating Hospitals HPD Pay Equity Plan? Answer: OPSEU/SEFPO and the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) have been engaged in active negotiations on pay equity for the last decade, with the goal to reach a pay equity plan for all HPD positions currently covered by HPD central bargaining. In 2020, the parties reached an impasse and the Union...

A significant milestone has been achieved in the nearly 20-year fight to achieve pay equity for thousands of members in OPSEU/SEFPO’s Hospital Professionals Division (HPD). The union and the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) have come to an agreement over male comparators in disputed pay bands, avoiding a lengthy Pay Equity Tribunal process. The two parties...

To The Point: October 2022 OPSEU/SEFPO Sector 19 Newsletter Download a printable PDF version here. Greetings Sector 19 members! Your Sector Executive has been working hard to promote the Blood Services and Diagnostics sector and we have some exciting announcements to share. Congratulations to OPSEU/SEFPO Local 298 Congratulations to OPSEU/SEFPO Local 298 – LifeLabs Couriers...

Toronto – OPSEU/SEFPO President JP Hornick is expressing deep concern over the passage of Bill 106, the Pandemic and Emergency Preparedness Act, 2022, saying it has troubling implications for collective bargaining and pay equity. “Parts of this bill circumvent the union and collective agreements, and that is entirely unacceptable,” said Hornick. “I’m also greatly concerned...

We are taking time on this Equal Pay Day to reflect on how far we’ve come to ensure women are treated equally, but we’re also thinking about how much more must be done. Equal Pay Day aims to draw attention to the gap that still exists between wages for men and women and speaks to...

OPSEU/SEFPO is proud to be a member of the Equal Pay Coalition, a group of over 50 trade unions, women’s organizations, worker movements, professional organizations, community organizations and businesses seeking to end gender pay discrimination and close the gender pay gap. The date chosen for Equal Pay Day symbolizes how far into the year the...

Dear HPD members, Following our communication dated December 3, 2021, your union has been working diligently to respond to the Pay Equity Commission’s refusal to address outstanding issues related to the Central HPD Pay Equity Plan. On March 22, 2022, OPSEU/SEFPO submitted a formal application on these outstanding areas of dispute to the Pay Equity...

The following message was sent out to all OPSEU/SEFPO members in the Hospital Professionals Division (HPD) following a recent ruling by the Pay Equity Commission. Dear HPD members, As you know, OPSEU/SEFPO and the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) have been engaged in active negotiations on pay equity for the last decade, with the goal to reach a pay equity plan for all...

Every year on April 17 Canadians celebrate Equality Day, which marks the day that Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms was signed along with its landmark provisions guaranteeing equality under the law. The “equality provisions” were enshrined in our laws to ensure that everyone is entitled to the same fundamental human rights – the right...