JERRY BROWN ENSHRINES EQUAL PAY–FOR UNEQUAL WORK

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Breitbart:

In Tuesday night’s Democratic debate, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pushed forward her preferred narrative about female victimhood in the United States: women aren’t paid equally for equal work.

 

“I believe in equal pay for equal work for women, but I also believe it’s about time we had paid family leave for American families and join the rest of the world,” Hillary explained. Socialist Vermont Senator Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)16%

also announced his support for “pay equity for women workers.”

 

The myth that women are paid less than men for the same work has been debunked over and over and over again. But it still wins female votes to proclaim that women are the downtrodden of the earth, even though a higher percentage of women now have bachelor’s degrees than men in the United States.

 

More importantly, the left never believed in equal pay for equal work. They always believed in higher pay for less work for women as a way to pander to the female vote. The latest incarnation of that philosophy comes in the form of California’s amendment to the Equal Pay Act, signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown last week.

 

California’s labor code has mandated “equal pay for equal work” since 1949. New additions to the law go significantly further. SB 358 mandates that women receive equal pay for “substantially similar work, when viewed as a composite of skill, effort, and responsibility.”

 

That means that in order to sue an employer for wage discrimination, a woman need not show that a person in the same position with the same job description or in the same department is receiving better pay for no apparent reason other than sex. Now, a woman can point to jobs with different titles in different departments for purposes of comparison.

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