I wonder how this will affect a company like Lockheed Martin which has nine locations across the US. I doubt Lockheed is dumb enough to discriminate as it is, but bearing the difference in cost of living from say southern California to Meridian, Mississippi .... would a female worker have claims to get the same pay as a male worker in southern california. And what if one plant is union and another is non-union?
well what do ya know, the GOP blocked the paycheck fairness act in the senate today. the vote was 53-44 in favor of the bill, but did not have the 60 votes needed to overcome a republican filibuster. shocker.
"You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry." - Lincoln
I have a tendency to think that women are not getting paid less for the same job, per se, but they receive less because they leave the workplace for a period of time. We still live in a world where, for many, women are the primary caregivers for children and, later, parents. Women move up the career ladder slower than men and often choose not to move up that same ladder because they don't make career the number 1 priority. It is still 'understood' that a man's job is most important even when both spouses have equivalent jobs with equivalent pay. I'm sure that doesn't apply to everyone but I know that I've made the conscious choice to limit my career advancement, for now, because my children are still young. After they graduate high school then I may seek to advance, although by then, I'll be a lot older and less desirable in administrative positions.
Are we getting something out of this all-encompassing trip?
Seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned...
MINIMUM WAGE SEC. 206. [Section 6] (d) Prohibition of sex discrimination (1) No employer having employees subject to any provisions of this section shall discriminate, within any establishment in which such employees are employed, between employees on the basis of sex by paying wages to employees in such establishment at a rate less than the rate at which he pays wages to employees of the opposite sex in such establishment for equal work on jobs the performance of which requires equal skill, effort, and responsibility, and which are performed under similar working conditions, except where such payment is made pursuant to (i) a seniority system; (ii) a merit system; (iii) a system which measures earnings by quantity or quality of production; or (iv) a differential based on any other factor other than sex: Provided, That an employer who is paying a wage rate differential in violation of this subsection shall not, in order to comply with the provisions of this subsection, reduce the wage rate of any employee.
because the courts have used precedence to "rewrite" the act and so additions are necessary to shove them back for a bit until they wiggle around them again.
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Whoops, those pesky facts sure have a way to ruin a good emotional heartfelt story.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
Unless you're a woman of course.
Seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned...
I AM MINE
MINIMUM WAGE
SEC. 206. [Section 6]
(d) Prohibition of sex discrimination
(1) No employer having employees subject to any provisions of this section shall discriminate, within any establishment in which such employees are employed, between employees on the basis of sex by paying wages to employees in such establishment at a rate less than the rate at which he pays wages to employees of the opposite sex in such establishment for equal work on jobs the performance of which requires equal skill, effort, and responsibility, and which are performed under similar working conditions, except where such payment is made pursuant to (i) a seniority system; (ii) a merit system; (iii) a system which measures earnings by quantity or quality of production; or (iv) a differential based on any other factor other than sex: Provided, That an employer who is paying a wage rate differential in violation of this subsection shall not, in order to comply with the provisions of this subsection, reduce the wage rate of any employee.
Why statists, why?