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סימולציה מס' 8

פרק שלישי

– אנגלית

A feature of the Ontario system is that it requires a job-by-job comparison between men and women, rather than the “wage-line” system favored elsewhere, which can be just as arbitrary, but allows proportional wage adjustments where there are no exact job comparisons. For example, a cleaner might be deemed to be worth 30% of an accountant. In 25 order to evaluate jobs under the Ontario system, companies must grade all jobs according to four criteria: skill, effort, responsibility and working conditions. Those where women pre dominate are then compared with jobs of equal value held by men, and wages for the two groups must be brought into line.

Questions

13. The pay-equity law -

(1) made people think women are more important than men (2) applies only to companies with 500 workers or more (3) will be extended to embrace smaller companies (4) is the toughest law in the world

14. According to the second paragraph, hospitals in the province -

(1) pay men C$50 million more than they pay women (2) expect to earn in the next three years as much as they did this year (3) are the biggest employer, and therefore made the biggest adjustments (4) pay women more as a result of the law

15. The story about the school secretary (lines 14-16) is mentioned in order to -

(1) show that the law applies especially to people holding low positions (2) show that an audio-visual technician does the same job as a well-paid secretary (3) exemplify how the law increased awareness to the value of jobs done by women (4) contradict the idea that women can’t have the same jobs as men

16. The Ontario evaluation method -

(1) uses mental health as one of its factors (2) deems a cleaner to be worth 30% of an accountant (3) can only be applied where men and women work together (4) compares jobs partially by using responsibility as a factor

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