IF I ran a company, I would do the following after Obama’s EO about ‘Equal pay for Equal work’.
I would call in every one of my employees to a meeting, hourly & salaried alike.
I would announce that every single one of them will now be punching in a time clock—at or before 8 in the AM, punching out for lunch, back in at the end of lunch, and out at 5 pm. Any late arrivals, or early departures would result in pay being docked.
I would make sure every single one knew that I was setting up a system in which I could prove whether men & women did the same amount of ‘hours’. Any assignments which were not done in the time expected would result in a write-up.
From such time forward, if anyone took off for a dental appointment, or such, it would be docked from their pay. IF a ‘mother’ whined about having to leave for medical appointments with their kids, I would remind them-—THEY CANNOT HAVE IT ALL. You want to have a ‘CAREER’ and you want to have kids....choose. I am paying employees to be here to do their JOBS....not to be making plans to leave for another ‘appointment’.
I have personally never seen equal work from women across the board at any place I ever worked. VERY, very few of them were on a ‘career path’. Their paycheck was an ‘extra’ for the household. They didn’t take the job very seriously, and they didn’t have much in mind about promotions. They didn’t continue their education. They didn’t treat their job as a place to be for their working life. Very few even understood their role in keeping a company competitive.
They use their kids as a reason they ‘have to leave early’ or ‘come in late’. When that happens, the work load gets put upon the others who didn’t take any time off. Did WE get paid extra for covering ‘Susie’s missing efforts”? Hell, no!! But the workload had to be done.
I lived with this for my entire working life. I never had any kids. and was single most of my life. It was a factor in my becoming self-employed before I was 40. I resented it then, and I still have such resentment.
“This work has to be finished today, and ‘Susie’ is out because one of her kids is sick” was never a welcome statement.
Measuring the balance of ‘Equal Work’ for ‘Equal pay’ is an impossibility.....especially in a paper world. Only can be done when someone is making parts in a factory, etc. Then you can compare ‘units of production’.
Obama is running another smoke & mirrors policy in front of women to dupe them into continuing to vote for Democrats.
I challenge other business owners to find a way to do such measuring.
Good review.
Back when I was in the ‘work’ work force (Asphalt Paving) we never had to really ‘put up’ with females in the field but naturally had them in the office, and as usual happens with most ‘office pogues’ the world revolves around them, NOT the people in the field or plants that keep the money flowing in to pay the ‘Office Pogues’ — from the Owner down to the flat laborer that was hired yesterday.
When I got to ‘ownership’ and in my ‘bar room discussions’ when this so called equality for minorities and females would rise, my stock ‘smart ass’ remark would be
“If it is true that men are being paid .25 more per hour than females and minorities, then all of us ‘hirers’ are flat stupid for not firing ALL the men and hire ‘others’ in their place and put the .25 in our own pockets”.
There used to be a story running around that when RFK took over as AG he started visiting plants and work places around the country in the name of ‘equality’ with the bottom line being to stamp out the inequality of hiring only whites in ‘Southern plants’.
His entourage pulled up to some factory in Alabama and RFK sought out the owner and started reading the ‘riot act’ about hiring practices.
The owner excused himself, called in his secretary and asked just what he had to do.
RFK went on to break down that (say) 20% of the force should be minority and minorities should have a goodly share of the ‘management’ positions.
Owner turned to secretary and said:
‘Start with the A’s, and work up dismissal papers on the first 250 minority employees, INCLUDING supervisors’
turning to RFK
‘you see sir, I have 1000(?) employees and currently have 450 Blacks on my payroll. I will be most UNHAPPY to get in compliance with Government standards and keep 200 Blacks as I don’t want to be in danger of not meeting YOUR quotas.’
“NOW you can leave my office, I have to go hire some employees to replace the 250 that I had to FIRE, per your instructions”.