Changes to the Equity Category (Q2 2024)

July 2024

Freedom of Association

CLARIFICATIONS

• Active Support
  • New clarification specifying examples of how an organization provides active support for employee self-organization and/or unionization for collective bargaining purposes

• ESOPs
  • New clarification specifying the conditions for ESOPs to qualify for Level 4 performance consideration

Living Wage

CLARIFICATIONS

• Applicability
  • Updated this clarification to specify when interns may be excluded from the Living Wage calculation

• Living Wage Definition
  • Updated this clarification to regarding how to organizations with varying location types should calculate the applicable living wage

• Living Wage Frameworks
  • Updated this clarification to fix a broken link for Living Wage Canada

• Wage Composition
  • Changed the name of this clarification (previously Cost of Benefits) and updated content to specify that wages are derived from base salary only