Canada's federalPay Equity Act(Act) received Royal Assent on December 13, 2018. The purpose of the Act is to create a proactive pay equity regime within the federal public and private sectors to ensure that federally regulated workplaces provide equal pay to men and women for work of equal value. On July 7, 2021, Canadaannouncedthat it would bring the Act and the supportingPay Equity Regulations(Regulations) into force on August 31, 2021. Please answer the following questions. Do you think the Ontario government should enact a similar pay equity act? Zo Cullen, an assistant professor at The Harvard Business School, found in her research that greater transparency incentivizes employers to bargain more aggressively because individual salary negotiations are likely to have "spillover" effects affecting the compensation of other workers, but that forcing employers to publish salary information for job postings could help push up salaries over all.

What do you think will happen? Will employers bargain hard to prevent or minimize pay increases, or will transparencyforce wages to go higher overall?