Media Advisory - Midwives hand-deliver messages to PC MPPs across Ontario - urge government to close gender pay gap Français
TORONTO, Feb. 26, 2020 /CNW/ - Midwives across Ontario are hand-delivering letters to their Conservative MPPs urging them to close the gender pay gap for midwives. This week, the Association of Ontario Midwives celebrated a historic decision from the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario. The tribunal ordered government to provide back pay and radically change its compensation-setting practices to ensure midwives no longer face a gender penalty on their pay.
What: Midwives and their supporters hand-deliver letters to Conservative MPPs across Ontario
When: Friday, February 28, 2020, 12:00 PM
Where: Conservative MPP constituency offices across Ontario
Overview: The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario has ordered remedies to address the systemic gender discrimination in compensation midwives face. At noon on February 28, 2020 midwives will hand-deliver a letter to their MPPs, urging government to close the gender pay gap for midwives by implementing the tribunal's orders.
SOURCE Association of Ontario Midwives
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