Parity

January

This entry was posted on Friday, January 30th, 2009 at 11:28 am by Matt Davies.
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7 Responses to “Parity”

marinedog January 30th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
MATT my old friend. What person is IN TODAY’S WORK FORCE is getting less money than another because they are of a different sex or race??
Or is this a new ploy The same pay for different work . Meaning if a woman is answering phones she should get paid the same as the Man who holds the head of production position.
Or closer to home a woman cleaner should get the same pay as a man cartoonist .
Matt Davies January 30th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Marinedog,
I don’t get your point. Gender pay discrepancy for equal work is a well-documented event in the modern workforce. Yesterday, in response to an odious 2007 Supreme Court ruling President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Law to give women affected by pay discrimination a realistic legal time frame within which to air a grievance:
BULLDOG January 30th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
Where is the new law for when a woman makes more than a man doing the same job? Please don’t tell me that does not happen! I’m all for equality but there is equal injustice on both sides. I can see Mr. Obama’s wife is ALREADY calling
the shots.
Matt Davies January 30th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
Bulldog, I think you’ll find that is not the case. Statistically a woman still makes 80 cents on the dollar when compared to a man working in the same position. And all the Ledbetter law does is give people a realistic time frame within which to file a grievance.
DisasterMan January 31st, 2009 at 12:20 am
When people are lucky enough to work in a decent environment, it can become very easy to forget that the rest of the world doesn’t work like that. I recently spent some time in Eastern Europe and it helped me to appreciate some of the trappings of civilisation that I take for granted, even gripe about. The same is true within a single country, even on two different sides of the same town. The cleaners in the nice office block probably have a slightly different perspective to the people whose bins they empty, don’t you think?

And Bulldog – I think you will find if you look at the terminology of discrimination laws (barring affirmative action, which are a unique and seperate case), they tend not to be exlusively in favour of one group over another – they are ANTI-DISCRIMINATION.

Personally, I am still waiting for my application for attendant in the ladies changing rooms to be approved, else I am surely going to call my lawyer…
Matt Davies January 31st, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Disasterman – Perhaps you should become a lawyer yourself.
BULLDOG February 2nd, 2009 at 10:15 am
If you get the job DisasterMan send me an application also!

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