Anti-Employer, Pro-Trial Lawyer Legislation Fails in Senate (Freedom 1-0 versus Tyranny)
Alliance for Worker Freedom ^ | 11/17/10 | Billy Gribbin
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Failing a cloture vote today in the Senate, the Paycheck Fairness Act (S.3772) was designed to close a purported “pay gap” between male and female workers. The Paycheck Fairness act looked to achieve this goal by facilitating litigation and levying small businesses with new paperwork—two policies which discourage hiring new workers.
“The misleadingly named Paycheck Fairness Act was a solution for a non-existent problem,” said Christopher Prandoni, Executive Director of the Alliance for Worker Freedom. “While proponents of this bill claim women make twenty percent less than men, when hours of work, overtime, education, and experience are accounted for, the difference between men and women’s wages is about five cents on the dollar...”
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