Paediatricians file injunction against FMSQ for pay inequity [Video]

Pay inequity persists in medical fields where women are in the majority, and to put an end to the issue, the Association des pédiatres du Québec (APQ) filed an injunction with the Superior Court on Thursday against the Fédération des médecins spécialistes du Québec (FMSQ).

The news, first reported by La Presse, was confirmed by The Canadian Press, which consulted the court documents.

The plaintiffs are the APQ and its president, Marie-Claude Roy, who has been practising paediatrics since 2008. They are asking the court to impose a series of orders to put an end to inequities in the remuneration of Quebec paediatricians.

The APQ argues that paediatricians are victims of a lack of representation within the FMSQ. It is asking the Superior Court to declare that “the FMSQ has failed in its duty of fair and equitable representation of the APQ, and that it has violated its members’ right …