didn't she just become PM of Iceland.
Posted on 01/29/2009 5:22:09 PM PST by GatorGirl
With President Obama’s signing today of a new federal law, the size of your paycheck may become just a little more interesting to your co-workers. Enactment of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act is likely to spark many employees’ interest in possible pay discrimination. The measure will remove obstacles to lawsuits on the issue by reversing a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that refuted pay-discrimination charges by Lilly Ledbetter, a supervisor at a Goodyear Tire and Rubber plant in Alabama. The high court had rejected Ms. Ledbetter’s claim because it wasn’t filed within the 180-day statute of limitations. The new legislation marks each paycheck as the beginning of a new 180-day window during which lawsuits can be filed.
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This law has nothing whatsoever to do with whether you are being paid fairly.
It is about whether you can create a retroactive case waaaaaayy back in history about having not been paid fairly somewhere in the recesses of time. The law merely extends back into the virtually infinite past the ability of you to create a grievance you didn’t bring up for many years.
So, it is primarily a way to harrass former employers after you subsequently fall on hard times.
Much as I'd like to believe that my sex is pure and noble, there are many left-wing women in favor of discrimination against men, as well as a few self-hating women on the far right who support discrimination against women.
Its just another step towards complete control by the govt. They will tell companies when they can fire people and how much to pay them.
The “Silly Bedwetter” act.
didn't she just become PM of Iceland.
Well, this won’t work for me at all, seeing as how I’m a hard-working white red-blooded male. Just a part of the body that is Atlas, shrugging.
Right, instead of a statute of limitations, this law allows each pay check to start the clock again.
And it will kick business when they are down.
Sure you do. Are you making what you and you employer agreed upon? If yes, then it's fair.
When Mike McCurry replaced Dee Dee Myers as the White House Press Secretary he came in at about $20,000 per year more.......LOL!
Consider:
1. Two people are hired, separately, into two similar jobs. They are both offered the same pay. One person accepts the initial offer. The second person counters the offer and negotiates a higher starting salary. Is the first person entitled to legal recourse?
2. Two people have a similar job at the same company. One person, a female, works thirty-two hours a week. Enough to be considered full-time. The second person, a man, works sixty-five hours a week. Are they both entitled to the same paycheck?
3. Two people have a similar job at two different companies. One company pays more than the other company. Is the lower-paid person entitled to legal recourse.
4. Susie is a receptionist. Fred is a high-rise iron worker. Susie sits behind a desk in an air conditioned office and answers the phone and greets visitors. Fred works sixty stories above the pavement, welding girders together in thirty-knot winds and temperatures that range from below freezing to triple digits. Under an “Equivalency” law, that Canada almost passed, a few years ago, Susie would have received the same pay as Fred. Would that be fair?
It's not about equal pay for equal work. That is just a marketing slogan to sell the idea. It is also phony propaganda.
On the face of it this bill extends the opportunity to sue. But the real question is how does one define “equal pay” and “equal work”? Unless you have employees with the same educational background and the same work load then this law will certainly open the door to disallowing merit pay for experience, expertise, schooling etc. So thus in order for companies to avoid lawsuits they will find themselves trying to dole out work on an “equal basis” even if there is an obvious difference in productivity.
Absolutely agree. It’s a whole can of worms. It basically throws the balance of power to the worker. I see a lot of litigation.
Perhaps I’ll go into employment law...job security? I can see alot of companies settling. Just what we don’t need in our current economic climate!
Where I work,
I am one of 4 people in my group
who all basically do the same job.
There are two guys and two gals.
I have no idea what the other 3 people earn.
Didn’t it come out during the election that Mc Cain paid his female staffers more generously than Obama even though part of their campaign was to bash McCain for not supporting this legislation before?
I’m not in favor of (irrational) discrimination either, but I don’t think the government should concern itself with what private employers pay to private employees.
This may soon replace the ADA as the most abused law in the USofA.
The trial lawyers must be salivating....
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