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Since Many Believe That The Market Should Set Wages, Do You Believe In The Paycheck Fairness Act?
Posted on June 3, 2012.
There are too many laws already
I don’t think the government should interfere in any manner in the hiring and firing decisions made by companies. If you don’t like these decisions, start your own company and do things they way YOU think they should be done.
You never let the proles know whats going on. Thats crazy talk
First you site the market, then you want government to interfere in the market.
What the hell?????
I always knew you were a nitwit.
Yes. But it probably will not be effective, but the pay scale for occupations is already collected by the BLS so the government could make the data more accessible so people could look up the market wage for their location and occupation,
The reason that women typically have a lower salary than men are many and varied but the primary reason is this: women are much less likely to work a FT position, and women are much less likely to stay with their company for long periods of time.
It’s nobody’s business what you get paid except you and your employer. You start telling other people what you get paid, and you get employees demanding higher wages from their employers, and not willing to do what their job requires for the rate that was previously accepted. This law just makes it so that the employee can’t be punished for doing something that will disrupt their work environment.
No. The Market value of your labor is whatever the market will pay. The government can’t dictate what that is.
I’m pretty sure that employers are the first to know what the current market of labor is.
There is a legitimate business operational reason to keep individual salaries private. When that privacy is leveraged for deliberate unfairness it does not stay ‘private’ for very long. So no I would not be in favor of such a law. Be that as it may I would be in favor of salary reporting requirements that would reveal bias trends in salaries.
I already know what salaries I would expect at given jobs because the information is readily available to all who seek it. I don’t think employers should prohibit talking to one another about wages, but it’s really your own fault if you are too dumb to know how you should be compensated. It’s your own fault if you are underpaid.
I believe that all workers should be unionized. Those who are not able to organize should be placed in unions organized under government supervision.
The market should not be given the power to impose wages. Corporations will manipulate the market to maximize their profits by exaggerating labour costs. Only when the workers have some representation and ability to negotiate will fairness ever be achieved.
Having worked for many years in an office setting, I can tell you exactly how this would be done if such an act were passed. They would give the person they want to pay higher wages a new title and pay them whatever they wanted likely based on their educational status, their work ethic, personal skills, etc. Then when that person leaves the job, the job is eliminated and a new one created with minor changes.
The wage scale in factory work is set by grade rather than the individual. All people on the same grade are paid the same rate after they have finished their probation period. This is true whether there is a union or not. Benefits tend to be the same regardless of job grade.
Discussing wages with co workers is asking for trouble from co workers who feel they are being cheated while they do not understand the process of deciding a salaried wage. Interfering with that would be a huge mistake imo. I’m saying that from 35 years of experience in the labor market. The labor market is often determined partially by the number of people who need a job as well as having to compete globally.
I can only assume people who want this kind of legislation have never held a job in the private sector in their entire lives. Local businesses actually send out questionnaires about what their pay scales, benefits, etc, are so they are competitive. It is to the benefit of the business to be able to attract the best workers and pay them a fair wage. Smaller companies pay what they can. New businesses pay less than older well established ones, etc.
Yes I do. I believe men and women who perform the same jobs should get equal pay.
The Paycheck Fairness Act is legislation being considered by the United States Congress to expand the scope of the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and the Fair Labor Standards Act as part of an effort to address male–female income disparity in the United States. Census Bureau data shows that women made 77 cents on the male dollar in 2008, a disparity sometimes attributed to systematic discrimination against women, but alternatively has been attributed to women’s lifestyle choices