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Algonquin’s annual tab for implementing the province’s new equal-pay law is by far the highest of any college in Ontario.

The province’s colleges are all scrambling to pay for Bill 148, the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, which requires employers to pay people who do substantially the same job the same wage. Colleges employ an army of contract instructors who are paid less than full-time professors.

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Algonquin’s estimated $25-million annual cost for pay equity is $10 million more than the college with the next highest bill, Fanshawe in southwestern Ontario, which will pay an estimated $15 million a year, according to statistics compiled by the College Employer Council.

Large colleges in the Toronto area — Humber, Centennial, George Brown and Seneca — have the next highest bills, with annual pay-equity costs ranging from $9.2 million to $14.5 million.

Why is the cost of equal pay so high at Algonquin?