Solution - dont hire women.
Liberty?
What’s that?
Are you fricking kidding me?? They’re going to try and legislate that we MUST tell our co-workers how much money we make? What a recipe for disaster. These people have NEVER worked a day in a real job where people get compensated for actual effort.
Oh, yeah. It says right there in the constitution that all persons must be paid the same amount for same or similar job and that it is the federal government’s job to enforce it. /s
Every employer should pay the least they can to obtain the class of labor they require.
Every employee should obtain the highest salary they are able to.
Many of us Gen-Xers found ourselves, at some point in our early careers, being compensated at rates lower than new hires, especially in technical careers. It was the effect of a tech boom and the economy associated with it. Workers were in demand. The supply of talent that was needed from college graduates was low.
Employment is as much a part of supply and demand as anything else in a traditionally capitalistic economy. The balance ebbs and flows. Liberals trying to legislate one aspect of this is, as usual, short sighted, and destructive.
They are advocating for the publishing of salaries so employees can identify what is fair and unfair. It is akin to government setting pay scales. This is how communists do it. Why not?
So all merit is gone from pay raises. Do well and get paid the same as a privileged member of a government-certified victim group who lobs around, comes in late, and does inferior work.
All these liberals, conveniently choose to ignore studies, which show that women overall earn less than men, because of gaps in work history due to having children, taking care of family matters, etc.
And many of those gaps in employment are due to the woman’s free choice to take time off, or look for less demanding jobs, which will fit better with family responsibilities.
I’ve seen a few studies which when controlled for various such factors, show that the gender pay gap disappears. I’ve seen studies which trace the careers of childless women, who have never taken any time for family, who have comparable pay and job responsibility of men in the same types of jobs.
So I expect that next up, the liberals will bitch about why it is, that women take time off, or seek less demanding jobs, just because of having a family. This will be seen as some “civil rights” crusade, I’m sure.
And they will look to other areas to bitch about, such as, why is it that after 50 years of the women’s movement, that less than 10% of partners in law firms are women. I suspect that it is because of the hard work and extreme hours needed to become a partner in a law firm causes many women not to make the effort. And may also tie in family responsibilities being incompatible with the long hours needed to make partner.
We’ll see where this goes.
Hells Bells, next they’ll want to just put everybody’s W2 into a publicly searchable online database.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
So post-17th Amendment ratification federal Democrats and RINOs evidently planning to steal state powers to make “federal” pay equality laws amounts to politicking to win votes from low-information citizens and illegal aliens in 2020 elections.
In other words, corrupt Democratic lawmakers are hoping to get themselves reelected so that they can continue to steal state revenues in the form of unconstitutional federal taxes.
"It is easier to get forgiveness than it is to receive permission." —Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, U.S. Navy's Chips Ahoy magazine (July 1986)
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added]." -Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States."Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”... the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See about middle of 3rd column.)
"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” — Justice Brandeis, Laboratories of democracy.
Note that constitutional limits on states as laboratories of democracy is that states cannot establish privileged / protected classes or abridge constitutionally enumerated rights, and must maintain a republican form of government.
"The “Holy Grail” of organized crime is to control government power to tax." —me
"The constitutionally undefined political parties are basically competing, corrupt voter unions, union dues paid by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.” —me
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me
Insights welcome.