The case against the Paycheck Fairness Act - Christina Hoff Sommers

HowardB · 2012-05-07T05:04:08+00:00

The Paycheck Fairness Act looks like common sense, but instead of helping women it will hurt all workers. The legislation, built on 30 years of spurious advocacy research, will impose unnecessary and onerous requirements on employers.

cthulufunk · 2012-05-07T11:37:52+00:00

The entitlement pimps have been working overtime on this one. If it passes, the economy will tank further.

marcos_de_santos · 2012-05-07T14:58:57+00:00

Great article. All upvote.

And find some ways to convince your senators to vote against it.

Any chance the Paycheck Fairness Act will not happen? It is like VAWA. Feminist lies always pervade and win. Why?

2012-05-07T17:59:27+00:00

I would not be surprised at all if the passage of this act leads to less employment of women. Certainly, more than a few employers will look for candidates that don't come with the risk of class-action lawsuits, and having every promotion/firing decision viewed through the lens of discrimination.

TracyMorganFreeman · 2012-05-07T21:42:58+00:00

Under the Equal Pay Act, the law that makes it illegal for employers to pay unequal wages to men and women who perform substantially equal work, an individual subject to wage discrimination must establish that “(1) the employer pays different wages to employees of the opposite sex; (2) the employees perform equal work on jobs requiring equal skill, effort and responsibility; and (3) the jobs are performed under similar working conditions.”[1] Even if the individual makes each of these showings, the defendant employer may avoid liability by proving that the wage disparity is justified by one of four affirmative defenses—that is, that the employer has set the challenged wages pursuant to “(1) a seniority system; (2) a merit system; (3) a system which measures earnings by quantity or quality of production; or (4) a differential based on any other factor other than sex.

This seems to be okay, but what is its reasoning?

However, current law already prohibits reliance on "market forces", a generic category that should include "negotiating skills", given the subjectivity of "negotiating skills" as a factor. In Corning Glass Works v. Brennan, the Supreme Court rejected the argument that “market forces”—that is, the value assigned by the market to men’s and women’s work, or the greater bargaining power that men have historically commanded—can constitute a “factor other than sex,” since sex is precisely the factor upon which those forces have been based

Oh, apparently negotiating skills should be a non-factor. So now employers can't reward assertive employees more. Secondly, market forces can't be a factor other than sex, but they want market forces to be more of a factor.

In other words they're talking out of both sides of their mouth.

Hello economy, thy name is stagnation.

Bobsutan · 2012-05-08T06:24:57+00:00

At this point I say bring it on. The more of this bullshit the better as it'll just speed the collapse as the system implodes under its own weight. I really wish it didn't have to come to that though.

Title	The case against the Paycheck Fairness Act - Christina Hoff Sommers
Author	HowardB
Upvotes	12
Comments	8
Date	May 7, 2012 5:03 AM UTC (14 years ago)
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