Haldimand-Norfolk Regional Board of Commissioners of Police et al. v. Ontario Nurses Association et al. (1990)

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After Ontario's pay equity legislation was enacted, the Ontario Nurses Association sought for nurses to be in the same comparator class as police in the municipality of Haldimand-Norfolk. The Tribunal ruled in favour of the nurses.

LEAF sponsored the intervention of the Equal Pay Coalition which argued that the purpose of the Pay Equity Act was to promote equality for women and that a new interpretation of the Act to exclude a larger number of women from its benefits would be inconsistent with section 15 of the Charter. This decision was upheld by the Ontario Court of Appeal in 1990.