Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 23, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Turning minnows into whales autumn weekend the United Way is love at work v v ii too Are you game for this yawns at swedes 81 Flis be i classified 54 88193 is Fhi Ince Par people 2944 letters 48 movies taif Tomim 42 43 weather s sports jumbl6 pu22l6 sunny High 6 Winnipeg free press Sun kis6s 14 Moon rises sets 85 september 15 cents with coloured comics final edition guides to allow wage Gap for reasons other than sex Ottawa up equal pay guides drawn up by the Federal human rights commission permit employers to justify different wages for males and females on grounds ranging from seniority and Merit to demotion and but the general rules thumb is that equal wages must be paid to men and women in the same establishment in jobs requiring the same Effort and responsibilities under similar working the guides were approved this Rita Deputy human rights said Friday they will be officially issued next week to inform employers How to interpret new equal pay provisions in the human rights the Law is aimed at eliminating wage discrimination against women in Federal government departments and Crown and the federally regulated private sector ranging from chartered Banks to Small inter provincial trucking the guides describe what is meant by responsibility and conditions of work to determine if employees Are performing work of equal they describe grounds employ ers can use to justify different wages for different sexes Merit pay for performance measured under a formal system which employees know seniority pay to Reward length of red circling where the position of an employee is downgraded As a result of reevaluation and the wage is Frozen or rehabilitation where higher wages than warranted Are paid while a worker recovers from a temporary injury or demotion pay because of unsatisfactory Job performance or an internal labor Force this covers onetime or gradual wage reductions or freezing temporary training positions which result in a worker getting wages different from that received by another person who has a similar position on a permanent the guides Are legally binding on a human rights tribunal which can be called upon to Settle complaints about wage discrimination in cases where conciliation does not the tribunal can order employ ers to pay wage increases when discrimination is but the commission will not accept plaints unless All other such As Union grievance Are first the guides Are the partial out come of months of talks Between the Trade staff women groups and labor relations we knew in Advance it would be continued see Deputy Page 4 postal talks strikes to continue Large banners adorn the residence of egyptian president Anwar Sadat in Cairo the erected by shopkeepers Over the main a photo Entrance to Sadat read shops of Dokkin affirm their support to the Steps taken by Anwar Sadat for peace and Hartline arabs pressure Hussein the los Angeles times Jordan they tried to get King Hussein to join the Arab front opposed to the Camp David Middle East peace settlement Fri but the jordanian Monarch indicated he was not sure he wanted to go in one of the More remarkable political demonstrations in two of Hussein bitterest enemies came to his kingdom to Praise his opposition to Camp David and to try and draw him into the ranks of the so called steadfastness whose leaders Are meeting in Dama the two leaders were Libya Moa mar and the pales Brezhnev blasts Pago 12 Tine liberation organization chief Yasser whose guerrillas were thrown out of Jordan in a bloody civil War Only eight years the gesture was a sign of the essential weakness of the which includes Only four of 23 Arab states plus the a weakness which appears Likely to be reflected in a final communique due Satur it also brought an immediate angry reaction from palestinian guerrilla Leader George an sex who complained that the More moderate Arafat should have consulted other palestinians before conferring with the Erst while at the end of the at the jordanian air Force base both visiting leaders tried to make it look As though bygones were by Khadaffi held the hands of both other much like a re Fere eat the end of a prize Hussein embraced then it was Arafat he stepped Forward tentatively and reached out with both arms for the jordanian and kissed him on both Hussein responded a syrian Border official commented everything turned up Side for the meeting was a Climax to his Long struggle to gain respectability in Arab and there seemed no doubt in his mind As he chatted with reporters afterwards that he had come out on asked whether he thought this was see Jordans Page 4 prices fall for vegetables and fruit Ottawa up lower prices for beef and for most fruits and vegetables contributed to a significant Over All decline in food costs across the country in the four weeks ending the ant inflation Board said prices fell about per cent in the the boards regular sur vey of gathered in about 60 supermarkets in 12 found food prices Are still about per cent above Levels of a year the Board estimated a nutritious diet for four Cost a week during the week ended a decline of from the August beef prices declined by per cent in the four months after wholesale and live cattle prices but the ant inflation Board warns it does not expect this trend to beef in the supermarket now costs about per cent More than a year pork prices went up about per cent in the month because of higher producer prices and the meat now costs Consumers about per cent More than last prices for poultry in creased by per cent in the four weeks to a level per cent higher than last the Board notes de Mand for Chicken is rising As prices for red meats fresh fruit prices fell by per cent in the past mainly be cause of a 25percent decline in Apple it still costs Consumers about per cent More than last year for fresh fresh vegetables fell in Price by 12 per cent in the past roasted and instant Coffee prices continued by the Canadian press the Leader of the Union represent ing Canadas letter carriers says rotating strikes would continue at least through the weekend after a breakdown Friday in talks aimed at settling the Robert president of the letter carriers Union of said there was no change in the governments contract offer and the rotating work stoppages would continue in nine Canadian the meeting Friday Between Union representatives and postmaster general Gilles Lamontagne broke off after three Lamontagne told the Union he had no More Money to offer beyond terms already on the bargaining Mcgarry said there was no Indica Tion from Lamontagne that Parlia ment would be recalled immediately to legislate an end to the the strike began thursday when about letter carriers halted mail service in 25 major centres including Saint Quebec Sher Edmonton and the Ontario cities of kit London and where almost half of All mail posted in Canada is picketing would continue through out the weekend at the same nine locations that were struck Mcgarry the breakdown in talks the Sec Ond in 24 hours followed personal intervention by a Cabi net led by prime minis Ter had met earlier Friday to plot government Mcgarry said the Union now has listened to the same government offer twice and further talks Are pointless unless a new offer is the Union has twice rejected a government proposal to accept an interim settlement based on the last offer while the entire contract is sent to binding Lamontagne immediately scheduled a joint news conference today with Treasury Board president Robert Andras to explain the govern ments restraint the two sides have agreed on a six percent wage but arc 19 cents an hour apart on a cos of living 1 the Union is seeking 65 cents an hour while the government has offered 46 the Union says the 19 cents was negotiated in the last contract but was rolled Back by the ant inflation the government says it can not afford to pay that amount under its current restraint Winnipeg deliveries disrupted by Hope Kamin the rotating strike by Canadian letter carriers has disrupted delivery of some government cheques and resulted in increased use of express and courier services in Winnipeg and across the Winnipeg office of employ ment and immigration Canada announced Friday that Canada employment Centre including unemployment insurance will be distributed at 460 main monday to Friday from 10 to 4 until the end of the cheques must be picked up in per son and claimants must have two pieces of persons receiving illness or mater nity benefits do not have to appear in person but must provide written authorization for release of the Che outside cheques can be picked up at the local Canada employment Centre beginning the Manitoba government has made arrangements so welfare Che see welfare Page 4 Blue Cross to offer individual dental insurance plan by Manfred Jager dental health now co vering about Manitoban in a number of group will be offered to individual subscribers and their families on a monthly Premium basis next two or three plans Likely will be offered initially to permit a Choice in benefits and Premium studies of the initial plans Are under with consultations taking place with officials in the Only other jurisdiction offering it in the world on a no government basis austra Manitoba Blue Cross will be the dental health insurance Michael Vic president and general manager of Manitoba Blue said Friday the consultations with Australia were taken to avoid Pitfalls to individual dental the most obvious among them a phenomenon called Antis Hawrysh explained suppose a person buys a pays his uses it to the full extent possible for two or three or four once the dental work is they cancel their subscription and get youve just got to have some Protection against that kind of because with a Premium say a the subscriber gets Worth of dental work and then decides he Doest need the insurance it Means the work the Cli ent obtained Cost him about if it was carried out Over a three month Hawrysh said he asked the austra Lian dental insurance officials How they overcame this but has yet to hear from the Manitoban have a couple of ideas of their own on that of one would be to offer individual plan dental insurance with benefits starting after a number of monthly premiums have been Hawrysh said Blue Cross is not thinking of introducing deductibles into the individual just As it has been against such deductibles in the groups dental insurance these have been sold in Manitoba since 1973 and cover about people through Blue Cross and an equal number through greatest life Assurance another device would be to limit the number of subscribers then observe their pattern of Den Tal services dates would be advertised and enrolment would be accepted from anyone but Only during two or four Blue Cross would then Analyse How the plans were used and the amount needed to pay for those enrolment would he Likely with no time but possibly with slight changes in Premium rates and insurance mechanics to reflect the surveys ;