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Saying efforts to narrow the gender wage gap are not working, the Ontario government will soon force firms to disclose salary ranges in jobs ads and also report to the province what they pay their employees.
In legislation aimed at lowering a difference that is as high as 30 per cent in some sectors — a figure that has not budged in the last decade — the Ontario government plans to have business track wages and break them down by gender and diversity to help rectify what the labour minister called a reality that’s “simply unfair to women.”