White House stops plan for companies to report worker pay by race and gender

LA Times ^ | Aug, 30, 2017 | James F. Peltz

[Hadean]

The White House has halted an Obama administration rule that would require businesses to report worker pay data by gender, race and ethnic groups in hope of narrowing wage gaps among workers.

The plan was announced by President Obama in early 2016 and was set to take effect early next year.

But the Trump administration, siding with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and others, contended that the data collection would be too burdensome for firms and questioned how effective the information might be in fighting wage discrimination.

Critics of the White House move, which came in a memo from the Office of Management and Budget on Tuesday, were outraged.

“Make no mistake — it’s an all-out attack on equal pay,” Fatima Goss Graves, president of the National Women’s Law Center, said in a statement. “Today’s action sends a clear message to employers: If you want to ignore pay inequities and sweep them under the rug, this administration has your back.”

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Chamber of Commerce, said the chamber was “gratified” by the White House decision in part because the chamber estimated that it would cost employers $1.3 billion a year.

[Freee-dame]

No president should be allowed to issue executive orders that do not take place until he is out of office. So often they are poison pills. Remember the arsenic in the water atrocity Clinton left for GWB?

[Behind the Blue Wall]

Good there’s no way to respond to it without discriminating against people.