Wage Discrimination The Senate will work on a bill that proposes to help close the wage gap between women and men working the same jobs, costing women and their families $434,000 over their careers, according to bill sponsors. Paycheck Fairness Act (S 2199): According to bill sponsors, it builds upon the landmark Equal Pay Act signed into law in 1963 by closing loopholes that have kept it from achieving its goal of equal pay and would require employers to show pay disparity is truly related to job-performance – not gender. The bill would also prohibit employer retaliation for sharing salary information with coworkers. (Under current law employers can sue and punish employees for sharing such information.) It strengthens remedies for pay discrimination by increasing compensation women can seek, allowing them to not only seek back pay, but also punitive damages for pay discrimination. And it would create a grant program to strengthen salary negotiation and other workplace skills. From our Hill Sources: Republicans have considered this bill to be a campaign stunt. They argue that it would make it difficult for employers to defeat frivolous lawsuits, fostering larger class action lawsuits, and creating an unprecedented level of remedies regardless of the intent to discriminate, and the real winner under the Democrats’ bill would be trial lawyers. ***** The Fair Tax will increase take home pay, without raising the minimum wage.
Posted on: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 22:07:59 +0000
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