New Pay Discrimination Bill Would Let Government Collect Payroll Records of Private Companies
(CNSNews.com) – A proposed new law would empower the federal government to collect the payroll information of private companies and analyze it in an effort to prevent gender-based pay discrimination. Known as the Paycheck Fairness Act, the law was passed by the House of Representatives more than one year ago, but it had languished in the Senate until Thursday, when it was taken up in the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee.

H.R. 12: Paycheck Fairness Act
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-12

To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, and for other purposes.

Sponsor: Rep. Rosa DeLauro [D-CT3]show cosponsors (200)