This is a very important policy, which is currently in place at the CUPE level and then within our non-union managers we set pay rates based on responsibilities, regardless of whether a man or woman is in that position.

However, that being said, there are imbalances in practice. Our workforce does not yet represent the diversity of Kamloops and because of past hiring practices our top employees, while fairly well balanced between men and women, are still seeing men paid more because of longer service.