The firm employs the services of two researchers and a statistician. Both of our researchers are SAS programmers. One holds a doctorate in social psychology from The University at Albany. The other has a master's degree in economics from The New School for Social Research and is completing his doctoral work at Purdue University. Our statistician holds a master's degree in statistics from Rutgers University and has completed all the course work for a Doctorate in Public Health, Biostatistics and teaches graduate level statistics. We also regularly subcontract the services of a Canadian pay equity expert.

Haignere, Inc. has the computers and software to store and manage large databases, organize and validate employee records, check for data inconsistencies and potential error, conduct sophisticated statistical analyses (SAS), efficiently monitor large research projects, and produce specialized reports.

Recent higher education clients

For higher education clients, Haignere, Inc. has recently consulted with the University of Maine System concerning assessment of gender equity in faculty salaries at the seven State of Maine higher education institutions. We have recently completed university faculty salary disparity studies at Seton Hall University and North Carolina State University. For the University of Maryland Dental School, Haignere, Inc. has completed salary equity assessments for both the clinical and basic science faculties.

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Policy related research

Haignere, Inc. has been retained to design and conduct policy-related studies to satisfy parties on different sides of policy issues. For example, Haignere, Inc. was selected to conduct research for the City of Toronto/CUPE Local 416 labor/management dispute over the development of a pay equity plan. The parties were ten years overdue in meeting the implementation required by the Ontario Pay Equity Act, and were essentially stalemated. We met with the parties and designed the necessary research to the satisfaction of both parties. The results of our study enabled the parties to successfully reach a negotiated agreement.

Recent pay equity clients

An explanation of pay equity/comparable worth.

Haignere, Inc. has completed numerous pay equity projects for the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC), including consultation on the development of a gender-neutral job evaluation system for assessing technology jobs at Bell Canada Telephone. CHRC also retained our firm to examine the gender neutrality of the factors and weights of the Treasury Board of Canada's Universal Classification Standard (UCS) as well as to conduct statistical analyses of a database containing the UCS ratings on more than 50,000 federal job classes.

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