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White House Backs Bill to Collect Employee Pay Information from Businesses
CNSNews.com ^ | July 22, 2010 | Penny Starr

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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To: Jerrybob
Paycheck Fairness Act.

What's next? Having everyone get the same pay? Probably. I mean why should the CEO get paid so much more than I do. I mean -- it's only fair!!!

This is completely insane, to say nothing of out of control.

21 posted on 07/22/2010 4:54:38 AM PDT by Jerrybob
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To: LibLieSlayer

Sorry to hear that LLS. At this point, I wish nothing but but evil on the evil man occupying our White House.


22 posted on 07/22/2010 4:57:08 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: pepsionice

I was once a federal contractor and had to report minorities.

I reported an Eskimo. I had a real Eskimo for an employee. He had followed his girlfriend back to East Tennessee.

An official from the Atlanta regional office of whatever checks out such things called me and grilled me thoroughly till convinced it was not a joke.

Eskimo’s had a higher value than others


23 posted on 07/22/2010 4:58:52 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... The winds of war are freshening)
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To: Man50D

This is the kind of sneaky stuff the Obamanoids are steering through Congress while we are being distracted by sensational racial stories.


24 posted on 07/22/2010 5:06:45 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: Grumpybutt

Surreal. I’m 3/4 through Atlas Shrugged. Everyday I come to FR and sometimes can’t tell the difference between reality and fiction.


25 posted on 07/22/2010 5:32:03 AM PDT by FightforFreedomCA (Pelosi is a wretched, communist, b!#*&)
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To: Man50D

Ummm, the gub’ment already does this, and has for decades. The forms are called the I9, W-2, W-4, and you file your taxes. They know more about you than you know...


26 posted on 07/22/2010 5:36:56 AM PDT by Cyclone59 (Don't blame me, I voted for the hot chick and the old guy!)
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To: Cyclone59
Ummm, the gub’ment already does this, and has for decades. The forms are called the I9, W-2, W-4, and you file your taxes.

Those forms don't include information about race, sex or national origin.
27 posted on 07/22/2010 5:38:51 AM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
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To: FightforFreedomCA

I was just about to comment similiarly. Finally got around to getting a copy of Atlas Shrugged last week, I’m about 20% into this (Dagny Taggart just suggested calling her railroad the John Galt Line).

I’m amazed how this 50 year old book parallels what is going on in our country, today and the path we’re headed on.


28 posted on 07/22/2010 5:42:55 AM PDT by Made In The USA (Home Depot should begin stocking up on pitchforks and torches.)
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To: Man50D

That is illegal. It will lead to the government closing down businesses because they don’t have the required quotas.


29 posted on 07/22/2010 5:50:31 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (liberalism: severe deterioration of the thinking apparattus)
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To: Man50D

This is because the current user of the oval office is convinced in his racist heart that American businesses are run by racist White men who deliberately refuse to hire anyone who is not “their own kind.”


30 posted on 07/22/2010 6:01:48 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (liberalism: severe deterioration of the thinking apparattus)
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To: rhombus
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

We're about to go full circle. Because of taxes and regulations the 50s lifestyle is coming back: 50% of the jobs are permanently disappearing. Only this time, as long as Ward and June stay unmarried, they will get food stamps, free cell phones, internet, cable TV, healthcare, and subsidized housing.

31 posted on 07/22/2010 6:22:54 AM PDT by Reeses
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To: Man50D

btt


32 posted on 07/22/2010 6:31:43 AM PDT by GailA (obamacare paid for by cuts & taxes on most vulnerable Veterans, retired Military, disabled & Seniors)
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To: jersey117

Me too Jersey... me too. Thanks... I fight to exist daily... but I see it coming.

LLS


33 posted on 07/22/2010 6:39:32 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer ( WOLVERINES!)
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To: Man50D

Better look closer. On the I9 you must produce certain documents that can be used to derive that information. Drivers license and birth certificate contain that information or the ability to get that information.


34 posted on 07/22/2010 7:38:37 AM PDT by Cyclone59 (Don't blame me, I voted for the hot chick and the old guy!)
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To: Man50D
These bastards are doing their best to turn us into a racially based country - like today's South Africa or Zimbabwe. The template is already there, dusted off, rested, and ready to go.
35 posted on 07/22/2010 8:13:57 AM PDT by Gritty (Political correctness is no longer just annoying. ItÂ’s deadly. - Lori Ziganto)
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To: 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.

Sounds like racial profiling to me.

36 posted on 07/22/2010 8:39:54 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
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To: Man50D

How long before the usual FReeper conformist line of “If you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide.” gets trotted out?

FReeper Sheeple.


37 posted on 07/22/2010 8:49:34 AM PDT by MichiganConservative (A government big enough to do unto the people you don't like will get to doing unto you soon enough.)
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To: Reeses

This welfare society is unsustainable.

Welcome to the future. Hope you have food, water, and ammo.


38 posted on 07/22/2010 9:02:55 AM PDT by MichiganConservative (A government big enough to do unto the people you don't like will get to doing unto you soon enough.)
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To: Fresh Wind

And these business have preferential hiring of “their own kind,” which means if you are not a member of their tribe you have no chance of getting the government job they are seeking to fill. How this is not blatant discrimination based on race and ethnicity is beyond me.


39 posted on 07/22/2010 9:09:22 AM PDT by WestSylvanian
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To: rhombus
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. ;-)

But we really don't have that option (in most cases), do we?

40 posted on 07/22/2010 9:11:04 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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