Employer pay equity statement (DEMES)

Employer pay equity statement (DEMES) is an open dataset from Government and Municipalities of Québec with 8 files (CSV, XLSX, HTML, PDF); catalogue record updated 2026-05-27. On CanQuery you can open 6 CSV or Excel files as tables, filter, chart and export up to 10,000 rows as CSV and follow the original downloads.

The dataset shows the information that employers subject to the Pay Equity Act (LES) have entered in their most recent __Employer Pay Equity Statement (DEMES) __. Through DEMES, employers report on the progress of the application of the LES to the Commission on Standards, Equity, Health and Safety at Work [CNESST — Pay Equity] (https://www.cnesst.gouv.qc.ca/fr/equite-salariale). The LES applies to businesses that reach an average of ten or more workers during a calendar year. An employer has various obligations in connection with the LES: First, complete an initial __pay equity exercise __ and post the results (DATE_AFFICH_EXERC) in your company within four years of being subject to the LES (DATE_PREV_EXERC). Then, assess maintaining pay equity, every five years, and post the results (DATE_AFFICH_MAINT) in your company. These evaluations must be carried out on a fixed date (DATE_PREV_MAINT). An empty posting date means that the employer has not indicated that it has fulfilled this obligation. To ensure privacy and the protection of personal information, businesses are listed using an anonymous numerical identifier (ID), created for the dataset.

Publisher

Government and Municipalities of Québec

Resources

8

Catalogue metadata updated

2026-05-27