Posted on 07/22/2010 3:25:46 AM PDT by Man50D
The Obama administration is backing legislation that includes regulations requiring U.S. businesses to provide to the government data about employee pay as it relates to the sex, race and national origin of employees.
In an orchestrated effort that included a statement by President Barack Obama and an event at the White House featuring Vice President Joe Biden, Attorney General Eric Holder and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, the president and his cabinet endorsed the Paycheck Fairness Act.
The House approved the act in 2009, but the Senate did not approve it. In the 111th Congress, both the House and the Senate have offered legislation that covers a wide range of workplace requirements and regulations, including training girls and women to become better at negotiating pay and benefits, and the establishment of a data base of U.S. workers’ pay in both the public and private sector.
At the White House on Tuesday, Biden was the keynote speaker at a Middle Class Task Force event where he told invited guests that the Obama administration is “on the right side of history” by passing legislation to ensure women are paid the same as their male counterparts.
“Women make up nearly half of all workers on U.S. payrolls, and two-thirds of families with children are headed either by two working parents or by a single parent who works,” Biden said.
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All you are going to do is invite a bunch of folks to suddenly register themselves with the boss as a Eskimo or Apache Indian. The Fed’s can’t prevent you from declaring yourself as such....and suddenly you will wake up in some company of 250 employees...to realize that you’ve 125 registered Navajo Indians....even though this is Maine and no one can ever remember meeting such a character.
Individual citizens have the right to bring discrimination charges against a business if they think they have justification. We don’t need more government involvement. This move screams ‘quota’.
I’d be surprised if this wasn’t already happening, considering that the Federal Government gives special preference to Eskimo and Indian-owned business at the contracting trough. Even blacks and women have to wait while the Native Americans get their fill.
As a woman, I gladly take less pay than any male counterpart in exchange for more time off to take care of things for my #1 and #2 jobs - Wife and Mother. It doesn’t bother me a bit.
Next up is ensuring Blacks are paid as much as Asians and Whites, and public school educated people the same as private and home schooled people. Equality of outcome is a race to the bottom.
Yup. But of course we can’t find out who is here legally!
What's a Hispanic? Someone who came from a place once colonized by Spain? By that definition anyone born in Florida, Arizona, New Mexico, California are ALL Hispanics.
As a man, I gladly take less pay than any female counterpart in exchange for more time off to take care of things for my #1 and #2 jobs - Husband and Father. It doesn't bother me a bit. ;-)
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“Next up is ensuring Blacks are paid as much as Asians and Whites”
If we look at college admission standards the pay levels won’t be the same. Some will probably get paid more because of their race and past history of getting paid less.
What they will do is find a way to start dictating pay. Pure communism.
I’m just jealous. :-)
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Well let me tell you.... the job I have now - I don’t work on Friday’s - that is the one day of the week that my kiddo’s can call home and know they have my full attention and three of them are in the military (one is home on leave right now from Afghanistan). Plus I can get all my house cleaning, laundry, grocery shopping, etc. done which frees up my weekends with hubby. :o) I don’t know that I’ll ever change jobs. LOL I’m spoiled now.
Seriously though, due to taxes and the economy, lot’s of families are two income families - we’ve just tried to make the best of it. Negotiating for more time off for less pay has always been part of my “sign on” in every job I’ve ever had since I became a mom.
But that’s just what’s important to me. I’m blessed and I know there are plenty of others out there that don’t have that opportunity.
Not only is Big Brother watching you, under Obama he’s acquiring binoculars.
There’s that word again - “Fairness”. Anything but!
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It's precisely the taxes and regulations over the last 40 years which have forced two income families. The 50's and the Ward and June Cleaver lifestyle are often denigrated by the same people who pushed all those taxes and regulations which have inflated the cost of mortgages, college educations, electricity, heating fuel, etc, etc. Still, all things being equal, I still think men have had fewer choices when it comes to career versus homemaker than women and that's why I said I was jealous. I know some men do it but it's the exception and I've yet to review a resume where a man says he took off a couple of years to raise his babies.
Is there any part of life this WH does NOT want to meddle in??? Stalin and Lenin would be SO PROUD. We are so screwed....
Doesn’t the IRS already collect pay information from employers and employees? What’s the point? And they say the intelligence agencies are duplicative.
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