Quebec employers should know that significant changes to the
Regulation respecting the report on pay equity (RPE) came
into effect on October 24, 2019.
Rather than requiring a RPE to be completed annually, the
Regulation now requires employers in good standing to produce a RPE
at the following interval:
- Annually, until they declare that
they have completed the initial pay equity exercise;
- Subsequently, when they carry out the
pay equity audit within their enterprise (every 5 years).
Thus, after having certified that they have completed the
initial pay equity exercise or the pay equity audit, employers will
be exempted from producing the RPE until their next audit.
In addition, please note that the online tool Progiciel –
a tool offered by the CNESST which allows to perform the various
calculations necessary for the initial pay equity exercise and the
pay equity audit – was recently updated. The modifications to
the Pay Equity Act adopted on April 10,
