Comments on: Senate GOP nixes Paycheck Fairness Act

By: BGR

BGR — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 06:24:53 +0000

Practically verbatim from George Miller mailer that cast them vote in hyper partisan spin that the issue had become unrecognizable and looks like Times played along again.

By: JohnW

JohnW — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 01:38:03 +0000

The law takes a “guilty until proven innocent” approach. For example, Hospital A recruits a new male ER doctor from Hospital B. To get the doctor on board, Hospital A has to offer the doctor a salary equal to or greater than what the doctor already makes at Hospital B. That offer is $10,000 higher than what most of the current ER doctors, most of them female, make at Hospital A. Under the law, Hospital A would not be able to justify the disparity based on the market reality of what it took to persuade the doctor to leave his current position. They would actually have to prove that the doctor’s higher salary at Hospital B was not, itself, the product of gender-based pay discrimination. Never mind that there might even be other variables to justify the higher salary. Maybe the doctor has subspecialty training that the other doctors don’t have, or went to a better medical school or residency program, or scored higher on the boards, or has won awards, or is multilingual. Under the law, Hospital A would have to prove that these extra credentials were necessary to do the job, not just bragging points.

By: RR senile columnist

RR senile columnist — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 00:10:36 +0000

Come on, gals! Women have civil rights statutes galore. The Demo-babes screech as if it’s 1912, or maybe earlier.

By: Josh Richman

Josh Richman — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 23:55:15 +0000

@2 – It’s Election Day only in California and five other states (IA, MT, NJ, NM & SD). Also, the House passed this in Jan. 2009; the Senate failed to move it forward in Nov. 2010; it was reintroduced in April 2011; and the House voted against taking it up last week.

By: JohnW

JohnW — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 22:04:10 +0000

Putting up a phony bill just to get the other side on record voting against it. Especially during election season. Outrageous! Shameful! Can’t imagine that the Republicans have ever done such a thing!

By: Common Tater

Common Tater — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 21:09:46 +0000

Just coincidental that this asinine effort was on election day, huh?

What low lifes.

By: Elwood

Elwood — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 20:53:07 +0000

“now a Democratic campaign rallying point.”

The only reason this phony bill was introduced in the first place.

And the usual mindless crap from Stretch and Baba Booboo.