Less than six months before the Presidential election, the new version of the Paycheck Fairness Act had no chance of being adopted by the Senate on Tuesday, June 5, but the vote brought the gender pay gap back to the center of the social debate in the US. (Ref. 120370)
After the Senate rejected, in the fall 2010, the Paycheck Fairness Act, supposed to complete the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act by making it easier to compare wages and to take collective action for equal pay, while forcing employers to explain the differences between men and women’s wages or to pay arrears and damages (see our dispatch No. 090301), Barack Obama promised to keep fighting for this law and introduced a new version of the bill in the spring 2011. Initiated by Democratic...
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