The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Pay Equity Committee (RCMP PEC), representing approximately 21,000 regular and civilian members, is committed to developing a pay equity plan that eliminates gender-based discrimination in pay practices so that women receive equal pay for work of equal value.
The RCMP PEC membership consists of representatives from 5 of the bargaining agents whose members work at the RCMP, from non-unionized employees, and from the Treasury Board Secretariat as the employer. We are incorporating the perspectives and experiences of women at the RCMP by complying with the Pay Equity Act requirement to have 50% of the committee identifying as women.
Our committee reaches decisions based on consensus, which means that we shape decisions collaboratively at each step in the pay equity process. We are committed to this cooperative process where discussions are based on information sharing, participation, inclusion, goodwill and trust.
The committee has been meeting on a regular basis since September 2023. Since then, we have made progress in determining job classes and in determining if those job classes have a gender predominance.
The committee reached the first milestone in February by establishing gender predominance for each job class, which means that we have established whether each job class was predominantly female, male or neutral for approximately 143 job classes.
Our next step is to determine the relative value of each predominantly female or male job class in the RCMP. This will help us identify wage gaps that currently exist between predominantly female and predominantly male job classes doing work of similar value. This stage of our work is detailed as we will be gathering extensive information to evaluate each job class with a consistent, gender-inclusive and unbiased approach.
Our committee has a shared purpose in delivering and advancing this important work. We are invested in this proactive process of identifying systemic gender-based discrimination in compensation. We want to address systemic undervaluing of work done by women in our organization so that women receive equal pay for work of equal value.
Quick Facts
- The RCMP pay equity plan will cover 18,000 regular members and 3,000 civilian members.
- An additional 9,000 employees at the RCMP who are Government of Canada employees will be covered under the Core Public Administration pay equity plan.
