Liberals appoint committee to help shrink gender pay gap in Ontario

TORONTO — The Liberal government has appointed a steering committee to help develop a strategy to deal with the wage gap between men and women.

The committee is made up of business, human resources and pay equity experts.

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It will spend the rest of the year consulting with groups across the province to examine how the wage gender gap affects women in the workforce and how government, business, labour and other organizations can help address the systemic barriers that contribute to the problem.

The committee is to report back to government early next year with its recommendations on how to narrow a wage gap that — according to Statistics Canada data — ranges from 12 to 31.5 per cent in Ontario.