B.C. job postings must include pay amounts starting this week – Prince George Citizen
Oct. 31, 2023
The goal is to help address the pay gap between men and women
All B.C. employers must include pay information on public job postings starting Wednesday.
It’s one of the requirements of the province’s Pay Transparency Act, which was passed into law this year in an effort to address the pay gap between men and women.
“People deserve equal pay for equal work,” Kelli Paddon, parliamentary secretary for gender equity, said in a statement Monday. “Making sure transparent wage or salary information is included in all job postings helps make sure people are being offered the same pay for the same work.”
According to Statistics Canada, women in B.C. are paid 17 per cent less than men, and the pay gap is even wider for Indigenous, migrant and visible minority women, or women with a disability.
