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GI-2024-6-reg4: Order Grouping Ministers’ Offices for the Purpose of a Pay Equity Plan

Sponsoring body: Employment and Social Development, Dept. ofIntroduced February 10, 2024Last checked August 25, 2026

Read the official text on gazette.gc.caOfficial version — Canada Gazette, Part I

What this regulation does

This Order groups all federal Cabinet ministers' offices together under a single pay equity plan, ensuring consistent pay equity outcomes for ministerial staff across all ministers' offices, including those with fewer than 10 employees.

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Business impact

Compliance

This regulation affects all federal Cabinet ministers' offices (approximately 39 in total), not private businesses. Between 2 and 5 ministers' offices with fewer than 10 staff will newly become subject to pay equity obligations they previously avoided. The main financial cost is pay adjustments for staff in predominantly female job classes, estimated at less than $1 million per year across all newly covered offices. On the savings side, grouping all offices into one plan reduces administrative burden significantly — instead of up to 39 separate pay equity plans and annual statements, there will be just one. The small business lens confirmed zero impact on Canadian small businesses.

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