The New Brunswick Coalition for Pay Equity has a new chair who has promptly taken the provincial government to task.
She's Vallie Stearns who formerly worked in a women's transition shelter. Stearns tells CHSJ News voluntary measures to bring about pay equity have not worked and she charges the Alward Government is not committed to legislation.
Stearns says workers in women's shelters, home care, community residences and day care have gone through job evaluations but are still waiting for wage adjustments and the delay in bringing those about is beyond what should have happened.