With reference to Ontario pay equity legislation,briefly discuss the job comparison methods that can be used for comparing female and male job classes.

The three main methods are (a)the job-to-job method,where a female job class is compared to a male class comparable in terms of job evaluation criteria; (b)the proportional value method,used when no comparator male job class exists; and (c)the proxy comparison method,which can be applied only in public sector organizations and only when the job-to-job and proportional value methods cannot be applied.