Property News · August 4, 2016

Massachusetts equal pay law is a good step – but problem runs much deeper


Two cheers! But as a next step let’s push Congress to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would at least let women know they are being underpaidRemember all those balloons on the podium at the end of the Democratic convention in Philadelphia? Sponsors of a new Massachusetts bill would like to have twice as many to kick around in celebration of their accomplishment in getting bipartisan approval for the country’s strongest equal pay law to date late last month. And now it has been signed by the state’s Republican governor, Charlie Baker. Massachusetts employers, take heed: when the new law takes effect on 1 July 2018, it will become illegal to ask a new hire for her (or his) salary history, and employers will have to pay all employees the same wages for the same or “comparable” positions. To hear the sponsors tell it, the new rules will “finally put a nail in the coffin of the gender pay gap”. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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