As Justin Patten, an employment mediator in London reported recently, a British appellate court Justice recently dissented from his fellows in a 2-1 equal pay appeal (the women lost), bemoaning the nearly epidemic, interminable litigation equal pay laws had set in motion.
Lilly Ledbetter is a name that is now synonymous with the fight for equal pay in the workforce.
Unison has said that local government trade unions will lobby Welsh MPs for additional funding to help councils meet the added financial burden of bringing in equal pay.
First, Mr. Romney yet again completely avoided the question of women receiving equal pay in the workplace as if getting home from work early is all that concerns working women.
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Just as Equal Pay Day brings attention to the disparity in pay for men and women, it could be useful to also establish an Equal Housework Day to benchmark the progress men are making performing household and caregiving tasks.
On Sunday, Democratic campaign aides made clear they would highlight Mr. Ryan's opposition to abortion rights and several votes against equal-pay measures in an effort to sway women against the GOP ticket.
Now keep in mind, this was 34 years after the Equal Pay Act was signed by President Kennedy in 1963, a law designed to abolish wage disparity based on gender.
"It is for local government to ensure that it implements pay reviews which remove discriminatory aspects of its pay structure, and tackle equal pay proactively and in an affordable manner, " he said.
Interestingly, it has been forty years since the Equal Pay Act was passed in the United Kingdom.
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As a result, if you earn a salary, you may have noticed that your first paycheck in 2013 was 2% lighter than your last check in 2012, assuming equal pay.
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Suddenly, I was standing in a room full of equal pay advocates and the President of the United States.
Appeal judges unanimously ruled the council had failed to establish that the deputy judge's ruling on the 1970 Equal Pay Act was wrong or in any way flawed.
National Equal Pay Day represents the date in the current year through which women must work to match what men earned in the previous year, reminding us that we must keep striving for an America where everyone gets an equal day's pay for an equal day's work.
WHITEHOUSE: Presidential Proclamation -- National Equal Pay Day, 2012
"The only area where female pay is equal to males is in the not-for-profit sector, " said Ms Artess.
We cannot call ourselves a nation of equals until we pay equal attention to all those in our criminal justice system whose stories merit our attention, regardless of their race or gender.
The US Open has paid equal prize money the past 38 years, but credit Venus Williams who fought for equal pay at Wimbledon which finally acquiesced in 2007 as did the French Open.
Raising the minimum wage has been favored by 80 percent of New Yorkers in polls for months, while equal pay for women hasn't often been polled because it is believed to have overwhelming support.
In return for escaping criminal charges, taxpayers accepted into the current version of the OVDP must file eight years of amended tax returns, pay all back taxes, interest and penalties due (including a 20% accuracy penalty on offshore-related underpayments) and pay an FBAR penalty equal, in most cases, to 27.5% of the maximum held in the undisclosed offshore accounts during the eight year period.
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Councils signed the "single status agreement" in 1997, committing local authorities to delivering equal pay for women workers where their wages had fallen behind the men.
They and many more are remembered for challenging segregation, organizing voter registration drives, pushing for equal pay, fighting for union rights, speaking in church and at rallies.
The White House is not engaging in discriminatory behavior when it comes to providing equal pay to women who are doing the same job as a male counterpart.
"Equal opportunity to access jobs and pay has been enshrined in legislation for 40 years, yet Futuretrack found that being female can make a difference to a graduate's earning power", said Ms Artess.
He may not have noticed, we're in the 21st century. (Applause.) And in the 21st century, a woman deserves equal pay for equal work. (Applause.) This should be a no-brainer.
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In many sectors, pay is regulated to be equal across heterogeneous geographical labor markets.
Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act, which prohibits arbitrary discrimination against women in the payment of wages.
But they owed us sound judgment, clear thinking, concern for our welfare, a guarantee that the threat to our country was equal to the price we might be called upon to pay in defending it.
But in his inaugural speech on Monday, President Obama highlighted equal pay as one of many important goals.
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In 2010, I was proud to create the National Equal Pay Task Force to identify and combat equal pay violations.
WHITEHOUSE: Presidential Proclamation -- National Equal Pay Day, 2012
They want more done to stop new cases arising in the future, as well as the introduction of annual equal pay audits for councils.
Rather than focus on the important question of women receiving equal pay for equal work, Romney chose to frame his answers in the light of creating policies that permitted women to have the sort of adjustable schedule that would get them home in time for dinner.
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