Working 9 to 5
What a way to make less than a man.
Recorded live, September 14, 2022, at the Coralus Confluence Event
In an immersive conversation, you'll meet four incredible women who are tackling the gender pay gap in their work. Allison Venditti Founder, Moms at Work and My Parental Leave, Tanya Piazza-Hughes, Sr. HR Manager, Principal @ HOK, Karen Jensen, Federal Pay Equity Commissioner and Janelle Benjamin Founder and Chief Equity Officer, All Things Equitable Inc.
You'll learn the difference between pay equity and equal pay for equal work, and what’s required of employers at a federal level. We’ll also highlight what has been developed to support closing the wage gap, how the wage gap affects women of the global majority differently and why the gap still exists.
Together we will learn what it takes to have more money flow into the hands of all women.
Meet the Panelists
Allison Venditti
Founder, Moms at Work and My Parental Leave
Since 2006, Allison has worked in Human Resources with a special interest in workplace accommodation, leave processing, and employee engagement. As a consultant, Allison was responsible for creating and developing comprehensive leave programs for both federally and provincially regulated employers. Her programs served tens of thousands of employees in areas from healthcare, non profit, tech, banking, construction and more. She’s worked with both unionized and non-unionized employers and has facilitated programming within organizations with representation from over 30 different unions.
Janelle Benjamin
Founder and Chief Equity Officer, All Things Equitable Inc.
Janelle Benjamin is a Juris Doctor with almost 20 years of experience in diversity and inclusion, accessibility, and human rights. She has expertise in leading corporate-wide diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, making system-wide improvements to workplace policies and practices, and working with senior leadership to break systemic barriers to inclusion in society, so that everyone may participate fully. Her recommendations for change have resulted in large-scale transformation of organizations and continuous improvement in a multitude of sectors.
Karen Jensen
Federal Pay Equity Commissioner
Karen Jensen was appointed Canada’s first Federal Pay Equity Commissioner in October 2019. She has represented unions and employers in pay equity disputes at different points in her legal career. In addition, as a full-time member of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal from 2005-2009, Karen adjudicated and mediated human rights disputes, including pay equity matters, in both official languages.
Prior to joining the Commission, Karen was a partner at Norton Rose Fulbright LLP and was the National and Local (Ottawa) Chair of their Labour and Employment group. A significant part of her legal practice involved advising and representing employers in complex pay equity disputes.
Tanya Piazza-Hughes
Sr. HR Manager, Principal @ HOK
Tanya is a collaborator, coach, and proud Torontonian who has spent the past two decades advocating for humans to have a more human experience within organizations. As HOK Canada’s Senior HR Manager and Chief Agitator of Ladybug Enterprises, she provides strategic direction, helps emerging talent discover their most worthy goals, contributes a unique people-focused lens to business development, and makes coaching a habit to those with a keen interest in staying curious a little longer. Tanya fosters and develops a culture built on the values of accountability, kindness, and genuine care for the people she works with.
She believes that HR is about humans, not policies and procedures. Tanya believes that now is the time for HR to make good on its long-standing, as yet unfulfilled promise, to act as a critical function within any organization to connect, grow, and develop lasting, meaningful, and sincere relationships within and beyond organizations.
Tanya is an innovator in partnering to create a workplace culture that is most importantly welcoming to everyone at every level of the organization. She believes everyone adds valuable perspective at all intersections of our lives, at home, work and everything in between, that makes us unique, beautiful human beings doing the best that we can, with what we have, from where we are.
Resources from the Panelists
What is Pay Equity? How can you build a pay equity plan> Find out more about the Canadian Human Rights Commission's pay equity work. Many great resources for employers and employees.
According to the World Economic Forum, In 2022, the global gender gap had been closed by 68.1%. At the current rate of progress, it will take 132 years to reach full wage parity. The only country in the world to have a 90% gender parity is Iceland.
It will take 164 years to close Canada’s economic gender gap: report
If things continue the way they are, it will take Canada roughly 164 years to close the economic gap between men and women, according to a new report.
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