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Obama administration to force employers to disclose salaries by gender
The Wall Street Journal ^ | 29 Jan 2016

Posted on 01/29/2016 9:38:07 AM PST by Bobby_Taxpayer

The Obama administration plans to require large employers to peel back the curtain on how much they pay men and women in a push to narrow long-standing earning gaps between the genders. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will roll out details of the plan Friday to begin gathering a summary of pay data from employers with 100 or more workers. The data will be used to identify employers that may be engaging in pay discrimination so that the agency can target its enforcement resources where problems may be likeliest to exist. The proposal would cover more than 63 million U.S. workers, according to the White House.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: eeoc; obama; salaries
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If this get pushed, the businesses should claim 5th Amendment privilege and refuse to comply.
1 posted on 01/29/2016 9:38:07 AM PST by Bobby_Taxpayer
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To: Bobby_Taxpayer

This is a big difference between Repubs and Dems.

Dems are worried about why teachers and engineers don’t make the same salaries. Why homosexuals can’t marry each other. Why cross-dressers can’t use the women’s room.

Repubs are worried about keeping ISIS out of their town.


2 posted on 01/29/2016 9:40:36 AM PST by marron
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To: Bobby_Taxpayer

screw pbama and his little dog, too!


3 posted on 01/29/2016 9:42:19 AM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: Bobby_Taxpayer

Regs for YE but not for THEE!

Feds: Remove ‘He’ and ‘She’ from Labor Regs to ‘Avoid the Gender Binary’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3389709/posts

But hey if you are a private business the feds want to know your gender makeup of your employees...


4 posted on 01/29/2016 9:42:50 AM PST by GraceG (The election doesn't pick the next president, it is an audition for "American Emperor"...)
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To: Bobby_Taxpayer

This is ridiculous. Their salary structure is a business competitiveness issue.

Why not ask them to reveal their trade secrets?


5 posted on 01/29/2016 9:44:28 AM PST by xzins (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Bobby_Taxpayer
The data will be used to identify employers that may be engaging in pay discrimination so that the agency can target its enforcement resources where problems may be likeliest to exist

What a horsebleep sentence in content and construction from the sadly declining WSJ.

First of all, the employers are identifying themselves under duress. There is no effort undertaken by PC bureaucrats, merely paper shuffling.

Second, differences in pay are not automatically discrimination. Compensation packages are as different as grains of sand on a beach.

Third, what are 'enforcement resources?' Merely the usual threatening letters and army of do-nothing lawyers. Nothing is litigated since Uncle Sam will always outspend the opposition.

Likeliest to exist? The horses have already been led to water - or what is claimed to be water.

6 posted on 01/29/2016 9:44:45 AM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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To: Bobby_Taxpayer

More unconstitutional federal interference and coercion.

States: NULLIFY unconstitutional federal acts which by definition are acts of tyranny. America, don’t acquiesce to tyranny!!!!

When will the states and the people of the states recognize that the greatest threat BY FAR to their well being, freedom, and peaceful way of life is the UNCONSTITUTIONAL FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

And when will Obama be impeached and removed for blatantly and repeatedly ignoring and violating his oath of office to “preserve, protect, and defend” the Constitution?


7 posted on 01/29/2016 9:44:46 AM PST by Jim W N
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To: Bobby_Taxpayer

They are wanting to push the removal of he and she off of labor forms... yet they want to keep track and penalize businesses that are not hiring enough women or men?

A BIG WARNING SIGN of a TYRANNY is having CONTRADICTORY LAWS!

Why is this TOOL of TYRANTS?

SELECTIVE ENFORCEMENT OF LAWS/REGULATIONS AGAINST POLITICAL ENEMIES!

” Everyone is guilty of something or has something to conceal. All one has to do is look hard enough to find what it is. “ ~
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn


8 posted on 01/29/2016 9:47:12 AM PST by GraceG (The election doesn't pick the next president, it is an audition for "American Emperor"...)
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To: Bobby_Taxpayer

This so-called gender pay gap is totally fabricated BS.


9 posted on 01/29/2016 9:47:44 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Bobby_Taxpayer

Link isn’t working for me. I assume they only want the report based on gender and not job/gender. For example, the Ds wouldn’t want a hospital to report

* male cardiologist $X, female cardiologist $Y
* male nurse $A, female nurse $B
...

They want
* male $HIGH, female $LOW


10 posted on 01/29/2016 9:48:33 AM PST by LostPassword
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The left always divides people. This one is male vs. female. We're still dealing with his racist black vs. white campaign and his poor vs. wealthy crap.
The man just cannot stand to see people living in peace. It's against his religion.

11 posted on 01/29/2016 9:48:43 AM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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Simply change sex syatus on all forms to transgender and done.

Since we’re not allowed to ask THAT question, who are we to say different.

Add that since “gender” is a matter of feeling, not biology, it can be transient.

Like the old commercial....

“Some time I can feel my nuts, sometimes I don’t”


12 posted on 01/29/2016 9:48:57 AM PST by Covenantor (Men are ruled..e.by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern - Chesterton)
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To: GraceG

13 posted on 01/29/2016 9:50:50 AM PST by GraceG (The election doesn't pick the next president, it is an audition for "American Emperor"...)
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To: Bobby_Taxpayer

Good! I think all the companies that financed Obama and the DNC should be mandated under compulsion of the federal government to do this. Then I think these companies should be forced to expose all their patented technology and show how many women worked on what.

These people are fascists.


14 posted on 01/29/2016 9:53:10 AM PST by Obadiah
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To: Bobby_Taxpayer

How about showing how much they pay their H1b’s.


15 posted on 01/29/2016 9:55:54 AM PST by marron
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To: xzins
This is ridiculous. Their salary structure is a business competitiveness issue.

Sillly Wabbit....you don't think they're going to provide this info to union organizers too?


16 posted on 01/29/2016 9:57:19 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Bobby_Taxpayer

What difference will any of this make. The libs are actively blurring the sexes anyway. Where will transgendered ones appear?


17 posted on 01/29/2016 9:57:53 AM PST by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: Bobby_Taxpayer

What if a genetically male employee “identifies” as a woman? How do you report that to Uncle Sugar?


18 posted on 01/29/2016 10:01:25 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: xzins

camels nose - one step at a time

This will also impact CEO,COO,CIO level- wait until thos e numbers start getting published


19 posted on 01/29/2016 10:03:56 AM PST by Nailbiter
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To: Bobby_Taxpayer

Why? Any company that pays women less than men for doing the same job has its head up its ass anyway.


20 posted on 01/29/2016 10:04:52 AM PST by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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