Posted on 09/20/2015 4:45:51 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Female employees in California are poised to get new tools to challenge gender-based wage gaps and receive protection from discrimination and retaliation if they ask questions about how much other people earn.
A bill recently passed by the Legislature and that Gov. Jerry Brown has indicated he will sign won’t suddenly put all women’s salaries on par with men’s or prod employers to freely disclose what every employee makes, which could make it easier for workers to mount pay discrimination claims.
But the legislation expands what supporters call an outdated state equal pay law and goes further than federal law, placing the burden on the employer to prove a man’s higher pay is based on factors other than gender and allowing workers to sue if they are paid less than someone with a different job title who does “substantially similar” work.
So, a supermarket clerk could challenge her pay based on what a male clerk might earn at the same supermarket 10 miles away. Or housekeepers at a hotel could challenge their pay based on what janitors make at the same hotel, arguing that they do similar work. The pending legislation allows them to learn pay details from asking clerks or janitors at other locations, again, without fear of blowback from management. …
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Does that include Hollywood movie starlets too?
That’ll boost business in CA.
2. also a gift to sellers of plywood (for boarding up businesses) and a gift to moving companies.
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Is Bruce Jenner a male or female for purposes of this legislation??? Isn’t it outdated and “gender binary” to talk only of men and women??? We live in a world in which we are told there are 56 different gender identities.
We have to examine all permutations. For example, what rights does a homosexual male who feels he is a woman trapped in a man’s body have??? Isn’t this law discriminatory if it’s aimed at women only???
Hey Moonbeam, what’s next, another commission to Texas to figure out why all the jobs are moving there.
Well, when it conflicts with union rules (and it does) we will just have to sit back and enjoy our popcorn!
Time for men to leave CA.
My Zillow home value just shot up another $20k. Thanks California!
Awesome news. For Texas.
I lived in California for eight years. Beautiful state. Too bad I can never go back, it would bankrupt me.
Done.
I lived there for 17 years. It was paradise at one time.
I have no desire to move back. Too hostile to business, too anti-Second Amendment.
We are getting a lot of Ca. plates in AZ traffic. Hope to hell they are conservatives fleeing oppression.
“That’ll boost business in CA”
My thot too...
The group I supported since 1992 now has an alternate base in another state. I took me a couple months to stand up the site, hire new employees and spin them up. Done. That wipes down half a floor. I support them remotely from my home office in Idaho using Lync. Just one out of town trip required this year to train the new system admin and developers and setup the new source code control and build systems.
Bloomberg is going to push his universal gun registration scheme in AZ next year. If it passes, it’ll unfortunately mean AZ is starting to trend the wrong way. I sure hope it goes down in flames in the #1 2A state. I hope to retire in AZ one day.
Do you still have to ride your motorcycle to San Diego for work once it a while? Or have you cut all ties?
Is. Nothing. Sacred. in California?
What a waste of a beautiful state by populating it with such annoying busybodies.
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