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The Department has vowed to continue their work with GBA+ in the coming year, including implementing a GBA+ Awareness Week as well as investing in the Women's Program, and continuing its work with It's Time: Canada's Strategy to Prevent and Address Gender-Based Violence and other Gender Based Violence initiatives. It also plans to continue ...
The COVID-19 pandemic had a deep impact on the Canadian economy, leading it into a recession. The government's social distancing rules had the effect of limiting economic activity in the country. Companies started mass layoffs of workers, and Canada's unemployment rate was 13.5 percent in May 2020, the highest it has been since 1976. [1]
The Global Gender Gap Report 2015 ranks Singapore's gender gap at 54th out of 145 states globally based on the economic participation and opportunity, the educational attainment, the health and survival, and the political empowerment sub-indexes (a lower rank means a smaller gender gap). The gender gap narrowed from 2014's ranking of 59.
The Facebook COO called for structural changes to social policy, including laws mandating paid sick leave for all workers as well as laws addressing the wage gap between men and women.
New Zealand’s government plans to compel large businesses to report the state of their gender pay gaps in a bid to increase equity in the workplace, the country’s Minister for Women Jan ...
Equal pay for equal work [1] is the concept of labour rights that individuals in the same workplace be given equal pay. [1] It is most commonly used in the context of sexual discrimination, in relation to the gender pay gap. Equal pay relates to the full range of payments and benefits, including basic pay, non-salary payments, bonuses and ...
Existing federal social security programs were modified to provide additional financial support to their recipients. Canada Child Benefit payments were given a one-time increase of $300 per child, [3] the Goods and Services Tax (GST) credit for the 2019 tax year was doubled, [4] and personal income tax deadlines for 2019 were extended.
SpaceX isn't the only company following suit in gender wage equality. Companies such as Google, Apple, Intel and the Gap are all working towards completely eliminating differences in pay when ...