Nancy Pelosi, Dem. Lawmakers Unveil The Paycheck Fairness Act In Effort To Close The Gender Pay Gap

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Source: CNBC

On Wednesday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic lawmakers reintroduced the Paycheck Fairness Act, a measure intended to strengthen equal pay protections for women.

The proposed bill, which Democrats have tried to pass for 20 years, would add protections to the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and the Fair Labor Standards Act in an attempt to close the gender wage gap. It would ban salary secrecy, increase penalties for employers who retaliate against workers who share wage information and allow workers to sue for damages of pay discrimination. The bill would also provide more training for employers on collecting pay gap information and eliminating pay disparities.

"When women succeed, America succeeds," said Pelosi at the introduction of the conference. She said she hopes President Trump will sign the bill by April 2, which is Equal Pay Day.

The bill's reintroduction marks the 10th anniversary of President Obama signing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which overturned a Supreme Court decision that limited the time period in which employees could file an equal pay lawsuit related to pay discrimination.


Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/30/nancy-pelosi-unveils-the-paycheck-fairness-act-to-close-the-pay-gap.html

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Republicans have claimed that the bill unnecessary because gender discrimination is already illegal, and that regulations in the bill would discourage employers from hiring women.

In 2018, women working full-time earned 80% of what men earned according to U.S. Census Bureau data. "I cannot tell you how difficult it has been to break through on something so simple- that men and women in the same job deserve the same pay," Rep. Rosa DeLauro of CT said.

Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez of NY said the bill would force employers to make salaries transparent and stop them from asking about pay history: "It is time that we pay people what they are worth and not how little they are desperate enough to accept," she said. "And that has nothing to do with their history, it has everything to do with what they are worth today."
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"Backing Paycheck Fairness Act to End Wage Gap," Ocasio-Cortez Says Time to Pay Women 'What They Are Worth.' "If closing the wage gap continues at its agonizingly-slow current rate, men and women will not reach wage equality until 2059. That is forty years too long."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/01/30/backing-paycheck-fairness-act-end-wage-gap-ocasio-cortez-says-time-pay-women-what

[ehrnst]

1. Gender pay equity - amazing we still don't have it. (nt)

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2. "When women succeed, America succeeds," said Pelosi at the introduction of the conference.

Spot on Nancy

[llmart]

3. While we're at it...

let's pass the ERA finally.

[appalachiablue]

4. Go for it, way long overdue.

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[volstork]

5. Amen to that.

Thanks for nothing, Phyllis (Schlafly).

[BigmanPigman]

6. That vile witch lived until her 90s.

This proves that "only the good die young". I think hatred gives them a reason to live. The fucking moron will live to be 324 years old if that is true.