Daily Writing #10

Paycheck Fairness Act

                Paycheck Fairness Act is very similar to the Equal Act of 1963 and the Fair labor Standards Act as a way for females and males to be paid equally. Paycheck Fairness Act can be very helpful and may make it fair for everyone who works. Senate Republicans have denied the bill multiple times but never said why.  The bill was moved forward on September 15, 2014 and been processed to be finally made official. Over the years, the wage gap has decreased significantly, especially in unionized workers. The wage gap between unionized female workers with male workers is approximately 9.4 cents. If the female worker and the male worker both work full time, the female work will make more than 90% of what men do. Hopefully in the near future, there will not be wage gap between anyone.

                Paycheck Fairness Act is aimed for that same issue, to prevent any wage gap and will also ban salary secrecy. This would help because employers won’t be prohibited to discuss their wage so female workers can compared how much they make to a male worker. Fifty percent of private sector workers have been prohibited to discuss wages nationwide.  Paycheck Fairness Act also does something that people been trying to abolish for many years. For woman and men to be paid equally if their skills, responsibilities and working conditions are the same.  For those who do pay men or woman more than the other will be penalized.  This law was used for people to feel the need to pay everyone equally because it can be very time consuming and cost a great amount of money. Republicans disagree on this law and state that women are already protected and the statistics are over exaggerated.

                Republicans disagree on the Paycheck Fairness Act because they say it’s very misleading.  According to the article, they believe the Democrats are distrustful and “betting that Americans aren’t smart enough to know better”.  They say it’s already illegal to discriminate towards gender or race by the Equal Act of 1963. This bill has good intentions but will make things worse and all workers will be affected.  They state, Democrats would counter that response by saying “women still make 77 cents for every dollar a man makes”. Republicans explain that statistic is very deceitful because they compare all jobs for woman and men. Comparing a male engineer to a female social worker, it makes senses that the male engineer would be paid more.  Republicans also justify that Democrats have no issues they feel to discuss so they have to resort using evasive tactics. They refuse to pass any 40 jobs fill that Republicans Senate has sent them that would help the economy. They also state that ObamaCare is unpopular and the cancellation can hurt women. Obamacare has also lost access to their personal doctors of their choice. Overall, the Republicans feel that Democrats are taking advantage of the scenario to make money for them and the trial lawyers. Democrats are trying to mislead the people as they always do.

Resources

Bryce Covert “Republicans Unanimously Block Equal Pay Bill” ThinkProgess.org September 15, 2014. Web. September 28, 2014

“Misleading Paycheck Fairness Act” Gop.com April 5, 2014. Web. September 28, 2014