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Mon Apr 27, 2009 at 14:23:40 PM EDT
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As many of you know, April 28th is Equal Pay Day - the day to which American women have to work just to catch up to the pay earned by their male colleagues in the previous year. Four extra months of work simply to catch up to the men and earn what they'd already taken home by last December - it's just not right man. Women are on the verge of outnumbering men in the workforce and we're the primary breadwinners for our families (there are a LOT of single moms out there), and yet we're still fighting for a fair shake in the workplace. Hard to believe that we're in the 21st century and women still have to fight for equal pay - 45 years after the Equal Pay Act was signed into law!
Well Congress and the White House don't seem to be pushing hard to make the Paycheck Fairness Act a reality, but Britain is doing something to level the playing field by enacting The Equality Bill.
Britain moves against gender pay discrimination
Britain has moved to curb gender discrimination in the workplace by launching a bill which will force companies to reveal pay gaps between men and women.
Equalities Minister Harriet Harman said the law contains a power compelling firms with 250 people or more to conduct a pay audit each year and publish the results. ...
The legislation will ban secrecy clauses that stop work colleagues comparing salaries, and trade unions would be able to use the information in pay bargaining, Harman said.
"You have either got to believe that women are 20 percent less intelligent, less hard working, less committed to their job, less experienced, less qualified, or you have got to believe that there is structural pay discrimination," Harman told a news conference.
Britain has an Equalities Minister? Wow... how do we get one of those here in the States? |
| Alegre :: Britain Leading the Way on Pay Equity |
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