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    STENY HOYER: WHITE HOUSE SHOULD GIVE WOMEN EQUAL PAY

    STENY HOYER: WHITE HOUSE SHOULD GIVE WOMEN EQUAL PAY



    by KERRY PICKET
    28 Jan 2014

    Minutes after President Obama ripped America's gender “wage gap” during the State of the Union of Address, House Minority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) told Breitbart News "of course" he thinks the White House should pay its female staffers equally to any equal work done by male White House personnel.

    "Well, of course," Hoyer responded when asked by Breitbart News.
    However, according to the D.C. based think tank the American Enterprise Institute, female White House staffers are paid less than 87 cents for every dollar paid to male staffers at the White House. This is a gender wage gap of more than 13 percent. AEI says.

    A Washington Times analysis of White House pay records from 2011 showed that while a few top women in the administration are paid top salaries, the majority of female staffers are paid less than their male counterparts, earning a median salary of $60,000, around 18 percent less than men, whose median salary is $71,000.
    Additionally, in 2009, The Washington Post reported a number a female aides complained about the amount of access male staffers in the White House get to the president.

    Former White House communications director Anita Dunn , was quoted in Ron Suskind's book as saying the White house place "would be in court for a hostile workplace... Because it actually fit all of the classic legal requirements for a genuinely hostile workplace to women.”

    Hoyer said he was unaware of the White House salary reports and said, "The president clearly believes in equal pay. One of the first bills he signed was the Lilly Ledbetter bill, which was equal pay for equal work, and the president believes in it strongly and he talked about it tonight."

    During his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama brought up the issue of gender wage gaps, saying: "Today, Women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong and, in 2014, it's an embarrassment. A woman deserves equal pay for equal work."
    President Obama did not address the gender wage disparities at the White House in his speech.

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...Equally-To-Men

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    Equal pay for equal work has been the law since 1963. So, if the White House is paying women less, this is just another law that the Obama administration chooses to ignore.

    Equal Pay

    Equal Pay for Equal Work

    Under applicable laws, employees are generally entitled to equal pay for equal work within the same establishment, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age or disability.
    Equal Pay Laws

    Prior to the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 (linked below), the Equal Pay Act of 1963 was the best-known "equal pay law". It amended the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and became one of the landmark Federal discrimination laws.
    The Equal Pay Act prohibits employers from discriminating on the basis of gender, by paying unequal wages to men and women who perform essentially the same jobs. The jobs don't have to be exactly the same, but must be substantially equal.
    Ever since the Act became law, employers have been prohibited from paying unequal wages to men and women working essentially the same jobs, except only when based on a factor other than gender; examples are seniority and merit.
    The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) enforces the Equal Pay Act of 1963. It also enforces the following discrimination acts, which function as equal pay laws when applicable. Collectively, the laws prohibit discrimination in any aspect of employment, including unequal wages, on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age or disability.


    http://employeeissues.com/equal_pay.htm

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