Starbucks Corp.’s vice president of partner resources in Canada says the coffee giant will conduct a thorough national review to ensure it offers equal pay for equal work in every province. The company’s promise comes after it says it reached 100 per cent pay equity in the U.S.Starbucks hasn’t give a timeline, but a statement it released says it will work with “deliberate speed.”Its chief partner officer Lucy Helm says it could take until 2119 to close the gender pay gap across the entire U.S. economy, and even longer around the world. Canada has long struggled to tackle the wage gap, with the most recent numbers showing women on average earn 87 cents for every dollar made by a man.

Source: thestar March 22, 2018 16:45 UTC