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Home Front: Politix
US presidential candidate wants to fine companies for gender pay gap
2019-05-21
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] US Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, now a senatrix from California and 2020 Dem presidential hopeful...
is unveiling a pay inequity proposal that aims to close the gender pay gap by holding corporations accountable when men are paid more than women.

Harris’ plan would require companies to disclose pay policies while applying for a mandatory "Equal Pay Certification" from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Companies that fail to achieve certification would be fined 1% of their profits for every 1% wage gap they allow to persist for work of equal value.

The US senator from Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, says $180 billion would be generated over 10 years, with fines decreasing over time as companies strengthen their equal pay practices.

"Kamala Harris has a simple message for corporations: Pay women fairly or pay the price," her campaign said in announcing the plan Monday, noting that the burden has been on workers to hold corporations accountable for pay discrimination.

Posted by:Fred

#8   I thought it was verboten to use the word 'Gap' when discussing women at work.

Discussing pay gap is OK.
Suggesting gap pay is soliciting.
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-05-21 15:48  

#7  I thought it was verboten to use the word 'Gap' when discussing women at work.
Posted by: Beau   2019-05-21 11:35  

#6  ...and CPA's to do all the audits - don't forget that angle!
Posted by: Raj   2019-05-21 09:24  

#5  $180 billion would be generated over 10 years, with fines decreasing over time as companies strengthen their equal pay practices.

Many more lawyers needed, possibly hundreds, thousands.... tens of thousands more.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-05-21 07:49  

#4  $180 billion would be generated over 10 years, with fines decreasing over time as companies strengthen their equal pay practices.

There is the graft.
Posted by: DarthVader   2019-05-21 07:47  

#3  steves: have you ever known of any of the dems too know the law?
Posted by: chris   2019-05-21 06:42  

#2  Passed in 1963, the Equal Pay Act prohibits sex-based wage discrimination between men and women in the same establishment who perform jobs that require substantially equal skill, effort and responsibility under similar working conditions.

tl;dr: Equal Pay is already the law, Kamala. Complete with legal penalties.
Posted by: SteveS   2019-05-21 01:13  

#1  Ms. Harris - was it equal pay when you got on top of Willie Brown as many times as he got on top of you? Asking for a friend...
Posted by: Raj   2019-05-21 00:57  

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