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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChris Christie Vetoes Equal Pay Bill, Calling It ‘Business Unfriendly’
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2016/05/03/3774752/christie-veto-equal-pay/New Jerseys lawmakers want to require employers to pay women the same as men for essentially the same work. But Gov. Chris Christie (R) thinks they went too far.
The bill that passed both chambers of the states legislature would have banned employers from paying women less for substantially similar work as men, and would only have allowed differing pay rates between genders if employers could prove it was based on something besides sex, such as education, experience, or performance. The similarity of the work would have been determined based on the required responsibilities, effort, and skills for jobs across all of an employers operations.
Most equal pay laws require the same pay for the exact same work. But New Jerseys bill would have been much stronger, reaching beyond the exact same jobs to require women to be paid equally if theyre doing the same tasks in a different role. The problem is common given that when women enter a particular job, the pay drops because their work is valued less, even if its the same work being performed by men. For example, maids make less than janitors; high school teachers make less than college professors; womens sports coaches tend to be paid less than mens coaches.
This concept, known as pay equity or comparable worth, used to be popular among statehouses. By 1989, 20 states had analyzed the pay of their own workforces to see whether men and women performing essentially the same duties were being paid differently. Over a decade, they spent more than $527 million to give more than 335,000 women a raise because they were being paid less despite doing basically the same work as men, eliminating between 25 and 33 percent of the pay gap. A national law would have been one of the strongest ways to reduce the gender wage gap, getting rid of over a quarter of it. Minnesota still conducts regular pay equity assessments and has significantly narrowed its gap, and California already passed a law just like New Jerseys.
But Christie specifically objected to this piece of the bill in his veto, calling it nonsensical and saying that it makes New Jersey very business unfriendly.
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I loved that joke at the WHCD last weekend, the one about Morning Joke and MSNBC being up Trumps *ss so far they bumped into Chris(t) Christie.
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Chris Christie Vetoes Equal Pay Bill, Calling It ‘Business Unfriendly’ (Original Post)
deminks
May 2016
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KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)1. How does the Republican party get ANY female votes?
This is f@cking disgusting.
Which also describes Gov. Chris Christie.
RKP5637
(67,110 posts)2. Because they're brainwashed and likely told what to do by their ignorant husbands! n/t
whathehell
(29,067 posts)3. Yes, the Emancipation Proclamation was "Business Unfriendly" too.
Stellar
(5,644 posts)4. what an a/h!
Wounded Bear
(58,662 posts)5. You know, if 'business' was friendlier to me...
I'd be friendlier to 'business.'
Same goes for Republicans and assholes, but I'm repeating myself.