About Lois Haignere

Professional Employment

  Haignere Inc., President, 1998-Present

 
Pay equity (comparable worth) and job evaluation research projects for government units and unions including the Canadian Human Rights Commission, the City of Toronto, Toronto Public Libraries and CUPE Local 416
 
Research and consultation concerning faculty and staff salary disparities for diverse institutions such as dental and medical schools, entire state university systems and colleges and sub-units within large universities.
 

United University Profession (UUP), Director of Research, 1988-2000

 
Selected Research Projects:

 
Multiple Regression Studies of Faculty and Professional Salaries at 29 State University NY Institutions
 
Studies of Compression in Faculty and Professional Salaries: Universities, Four-Year and Two-Year Colleges
 
Studies of Salary Disparities Across and Within Different Types of Higher Education Institutions
 
Surveys: needs assessments, opinion questionnaires, part-time employee surveys
 
Studies of Gender/Race Bias in Faculty Rank Assignment at Universities, Four-Year and Two-Year Colleges
 
 
 
State University of New York at Albany, Center for Women in Government, 1981-88

      Positions Progression: Research Associate; Senior Research Associate; Director of Research.

  Selected Major Projects:

 
The New York State Comparable Worth Study - Assistant Director
 
The Massachusetts Hay System Gender Neutrality Assessment, Director
 
The AFSCME Small Jurisdiction Pay Equity Project, Director
 
Suffolk County Pay Equity Study, Director
 
Three Village School District Pay Equity Study, Director
 
The Washington State Pay Equity Study and Willis System Gender Bias Assessment, Director
     

Expert Testimony

 
Arbitration Hearings:
 

1199 Health Care Employee Union v. Columbia University, concerning job evaluation

C.W. Post Faculty Association v. C.W. Post College, concerning gender bias in salaries

 
 
Ontario Pay Equity Tribunal: Ontario Public Sector Employees Union v. Cybermedix Health Services Ltd. regarding the information needed to negotiate a job evaluation system.
 
Canadian Human Rights Tribunal: Public Service Alliance v. Treasury Board, regarding what constitutes gender-neutral job evaluation
 
U.S. Federal District Court: Sadler v. Boise State University, regarding systemic bias in faculty salaries

Technical Consulting

 
For Governmental Agencies:

 
Canadian Human Rights Commission
 
City of Toronto/Toronto Public Library
 
Ontario Worker's Compensation Board
 
New Zealand Commission of Employment Equity
 
New Zealand Ministry of Women's Affairs
 
Labour Canada Women's Bureau
 
Ontario Pay Equity Commission
 
Office of the Auditor General of Canada
 
Treasury Board Canada/Federal Job Evaluation System
     
  For Unions:

 
Toronto Public Library CUPE Local 416
 
Connecticut State Federation of Teachers
 
Federation of Women Teachers of Ontario
 
Toronto General Hospital/Ontario Nurses Association
 
Ontario Public Service Employees Union
 
1199 Health Care Employee Union
 
St. Mary's University Staff Association
 
Dalhousie University Staff Association
 
C.W. Post College New York Staff Association
     
  For Higher Education Institutions:

 
University of Maine System
 
University of Maryland Dental School
 
North Carolina State University, Raleigh
 
Seton Hall University
 
University of Western Ontario
 
Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations
 

Association of University Teachers of New Zealand

 

Utah State University
 

Pennsylvania State College of Medicine Hershey Medical Center

Selected Publications

    2002 Haignere, L. et. al. Pay Checks: A Guide to Salary Equity for Higher Education Faculty,
forthcoming - published by AAUP.

    1997 Haignere, L. "Tailoring Job Evaluation to Fit Pay Equity." International Encyclopedia of Public Policy and Administration. Westview Press.

    1996 Haignere, L. Y. Lin, B. Eisenberg, J. McCarthy Pay Checks: A Guide to Salary Equity in Higher Education. United University Professions.

    1993 Haignere, L. "A Study of Equal Pay for Faculty at Twenty-nine SUNY Institutions" Proceedings of the Twenty-first Annual Conference of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions: 184-215.

    1992 Reskin, B., D. Liddy, L. Haignere, L.L. Francis. "Salary Setting Practices that Unfairly Disadvantage Women Faculty." July- August 1992 Academe: 32-35.

    1991 Haignere, L. "Pay Equity Implementation: Experimentation, Negotiation, Mediation, Litigation, and Aggravation" Just Wages: A Feminist Assessment of Pay Equity, edited by J. Fudge and P. McDermott.

    1990 Haignere, L. "Salary Equity Four Cell," Collective Bargaining in Higher Education: the 1990's, National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions, Baruch College, CUNY.

    1987 Berheide, C., C. Chertos, L. Haignere, R. Steinberg. (listed alphabetically) "Pay Equity Analysis of Female Dominated and Disproportionately Minority New York State Job Titles," Humanities and Society, Volume 11: 465-485.

    1987 Steinberg, R., and L. Haignere. "Equitable Compensation: Methodological Criteria for Comparable Worth." Ingredients for Women's Employment Policy, edited by C. Bose and G. Spitze.
     
     




Haignere Inc.
28 Bentwood Court East
Albany, NY 12203-4810
Telephone: (518) 464-0991