When I post a sensible opinion piece from the NYT, some Freepers are puzzled. Sommers is a guest contributor, not a columnist (like Krugman) or an editorial board member.
Great idea! Put more rules on businesses, increase the chance of law suits, give another reason not to hire. This should be great for the unemployment problem.
This is liberal gobbledygook for "the market works". Wage differentials were the hot research topic when I was a grad student (back just after Gutenberg got his printing press working). The biggest single cause of the wage differential was the loose attachment to the labor force by women because of family responsibilities. When that was factor out, wages were almost the same. Indeed, women at the Westinghouse assembly plants actually had higher wages than men.
Common sense says that in ANY business, it's ultimately the bottom-line and customer retention that drives the owners, in the long run.
That said; I don't care about the gender, sex life, color, origin, etc. of the employee but rather care about their work ethic, production, character, and their contribution to the success of the business. ANY other forced rules have NOTHING to do with the success of my business, unless I'm looking for government handouts/payback, which ALWAYS are going to be used as vote-buying and dependency-creation, or to fund re-election and power.
So the overweight homely hooker should get the same pay as the looker?
(Perhaps if the libtard politicos are paying.)
You don’t get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate. Free market works.