Thursday, January 31, 2013

More Government Intrusion Into Our Lives

From CBS DC: A ‘Paycheck Fairness Act’ introduced in Congress last week would require employers to show pay disparity is related to job-performance and prohibit employer retaliation for sharing salary information with coworkers.
Senator Barbara A. Mikulski and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, both Democrats, said their legislation is aimed at closing the pay gap between men and women and would also address loopholes in the 1963 Equal Pay Act.
Currently, the law allows employers to sue or otherwise punish employees for sharing their salary information and women still make just 77 cents on their male counterpart’s dollar, according to Sen. Mikulski’s office. http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/01/31/mikulskis-paycheck-fairness-act-would-allow-employees-to-discuss-salaries/
I really don't care what my co-workers make and quite honestly, as a worker in the private sector, besides being a teacher, I don't want my co-workers know what I make.
Public employees are a different animal because they are paid by the taxpayer and we should have the right to know what public employees make.
But this is an area that the nanny Mikulski and DeLauro just don't belong.

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