Obama To Sign Executive Orders On Equal Pay

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  • riotgrl
    riotgrl LOUISVILLE Posts: 1,895
    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...

    I AM MINE
  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    The Equal Pay Act of 1963


    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.
  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    edited April 2014
    But somehow we need more laws, why not just follow the ones already written?

    Why statists, why?
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    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.
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    what i mean is, the paycheck fairness act sought to lend procedural weight to the enforcement of violations of the equal pay act
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?

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