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appalachiablue

(41,172 posts) Wed Jan 30, 2019, 05:59 PM Jan 2019

AOC: 'Pay Women What They Are Worth,' Paycheck Fairness Act To End Wage Gap, Today

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- "Backing Paycheck Fairness Act to End Wage Gap, Ocasio-Cortez Says Time to Pay Women 'What They Are Worth.'- "If closing the wage gap continues at its agonizingly-slow current rate, men and women will not reach wage equality until 2059. That is forty years too long." 1/30/19. Joining several House colleagues in introducing the Paycheck Fairness Act to combat gender and racial wage disparities on Wednesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) offered a challenge to employers and right-wingers who deny the existence of unfair pay gaps: "prove it."

The congresswoman highlighted one measure within the legislation that will prohibit retaliation against employees who disclose their salaries or seek information about salaries and pay disparities—with the aim of ending the culture of "secrecy" that has allowed wage gaps to persist decades after the Equal Pay Act of 1963.

The Paycheck Fairness Act "makes it legal and it makes it totally permissible to share your salary information at your workplace, and that's incredibly important because for those who say that the wage gap does not exist, they should have no problem proving that," Ocasio-Cortez said. The congresswoman joined House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) and other representatives in unveiling the legislation 10 years to the day after former President Barack Obama signed the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act into law.

The Lily Ledbetter Act overturned a Supreme Court decision which severely limited the time period when an employee can file a discrimination lawsuit. The law's namesake was present at Wednesday's press conference and also detailed in a CNN op-ed why more work is needed to combat pay disparities.

-> Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the Paycheck Fairness Act, which addresses the gender pay gap: "It is time that we pay people what they are worth and not how little they are desperate enough to accept" https://abcn.ws/2J0gebC

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/01/30/backing-paycheck-fairness-act-end-wage-gap-ocasio-cortez-says-time-pay-women-what

'Nancy Pelosi, Dem. Lawmakers Unveil The Paycheck Fairness Act In Effort To Close The Gender Pay Gap,' CNBC, 1/30.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142256338

- Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined her House colleagues at a press conference introducing the Paycheck Fairness Act, to combat wage disparities based on gender and the lack of transparency which allows them to persist.

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AOC: 'Pay Women What They Are Worth,' Paycheck Fairness Act To End Wage Gap, Today (Original Post) appalachiablue Jan 2019 OP

Interesting: George II Jan 2019 #1

For sure, thanks for posting. And it takes a village. More BACKGROUND appalachiablue Jan 2019 #3

This message was self-deleted by its author George II Jan 2019 #5

Good to know. Hillary's legacy is everywhere, even when you don't see her name. (nt) ehrnst Jan 2019 #6

A long-standing plank on the Dem platform, see Lily ledbetter Act. brush Jan 2019 #2

As is a form of Medicare for All going back to 1943 when John Dingell Sr. first introduced it. George II Jan 2019 #4

George II

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1. Interesting:

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Wed Jan 30, 2019, 06:50 PM

Jan 2019

https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/womens-rights-and-opportunity/

"As senator from New York, Hillary championed access to emergency contraception and voted in favor of strengthening a woman’s right to make her own health decisions. She also championed the Paycheck Fairness Act and co-sponsored the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. She fought for legislation to guarantee paid sick leave and paid parental leave for all federal employees."

appalachiablue

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3. For sure, thanks for posting. And it takes a village. More BACKGROUND

Reply to George II (Reply #1)

Wed Jan 30, 2019, 07:32 PM

Jan 2019

on the bill's history from a CNBC article today, added above:

CNBC. "The proposed bill, which Democrats have tried to pass for 20 years, would add protections to the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and the Fair Labor Standards Act in an attempt to close the gender wage gap. It would ban salary secrecy, increase penalties for employers who retaliate against workers who share wage information and allow workers to sue for damages of pay discrimination. The bill would also provide more training for employers on collecting pay gap information and eliminating pay disparities.

"When women succeed, America succeeds," said Pelosi at the introduction of the conference. She said she hopes President Trump will sign the bill by April 2, which is Equal Pay Day. The bill's reintroduction marks the 10th anniversary of President Obama signing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which overturned a Supreme Court decision that limited the time period in which employees could file an equal pay lawsuit related to pay discrimination."
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/30/nancy-pelosi-unveils-the-paycheck-fairness-act-to-close-the-pay-gap.html