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ARTICLE · 14 NOVEMBER 2016

No ‘Adorable' Way To Discuss Wage Discrimination

Alexander Holburn Beaudin + Lang LLP
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This time last year the Hollywood actress Jennifer Lawrence spoke out about making less than her male co-stars after the Sony hack revealed payroll figures on the internet.

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Michael Watt
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This time last year the Hollywood actress Jennifer Lawrence spoke out about making less than her male co-stars after the Sony hack revealed payroll figures on the internet. She questioned whether she had failed as a negotiator when her male counterparts had succeeded, or was hers a case of gender discrimination. She resolved that she was over trying to find an "adorable" way to state her opinion.

J-Law's comments reminded us that wage disparity between persons of different sexes doing the same job may be wrong and unfair in modern society regardless of the explanation. In British Columbia and across Canada wage discrimination has been made illegal where it is based in whole or in part on a person's gender (or other enumerated grounds). Below we have discussed the legal protections in place and related decisions.

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