http://www.todaysworkplace.org/2008/09/02/the-importance-of-fair-pay-this-labor-day/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:46:42 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.todaysworkplace.org/2008/09/02/the-importance-of-fair-pay-this-labor-day/comment-page-1/#comment-105 Today’s Workplace » Take Back Labor Day: Week One Roundup Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:20:33 +0000 http://www.todaysworkplace.org/?p=512#comment-105 [...] Professor Paul Secunda, law professor at Marquette and co-editor of the Workplace Prof Blog, correctly notes that with the upcoming election, we have a choice to make regarding whether we want fair pay in the workplace, after the Supreme Court’s Ledbetter decision made it difficult if not impossible to bring an equal pay claim: “Let’s hope that regardless of who is elected president that women are no longer afforded merely second-class status in the workplace and the Ledbetter decision’s days are numbered.” (See The Importance of Fair Pay this Labor Day.) [...] [...] Professor Paul Secunda, law professor at Marquette and co-editor of the Workplace Prof Blog, correctly notes that with the upcoming election, we have a choice to make regarding whether we want fair pay in the workplace, after the Supreme Court’s Ledbetter decision made it difficult if not impossible to bring an equal pay claim: “Let’s hope that regardless of who is elected president that women are no longer afforded merely second-class status in the workplace and the Ledbetter decision’s days are numbered.” (See The Importance of Fair Pay this Labor Day.) [...]

]]> http://www.todaysworkplace.org/2008/09/02/the-importance-of-fair-pay-this-labor-day/comment-page-1/#comment-62 Ledbetter: Court, Congress, and President : Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:31:00 +0000 http://www.todaysworkplace.org/?p=512#comment-62 [...] colleague Paul Secunda recently wrote this pointed essay on the Supreme Court’s Ledbetter decision for the Workplace Fairness Blog.  Ledbetter made [...] [...] colleague Paul Secunda recently wrote this pointed essay on the Supreme Court’s Ledbetter decision for the Workplace Fairness Blog.  Ledbetter made [...]

]]> http://www.todaysworkplace.org/2008/09/02/the-importance-of-fair-pay-this-labor-day/comment-page-1/#comment-45 Jen Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:04:03 +0000 http://www.todaysworkplace.org/?p=512#comment-45 Great piece Paul. 77 cents to the dollar is still an issue that we can't forget about. I keep sensing that young women forget to think about this as an issue b/c their educational careers as of late make the world out to be such a meritocracy. Unfortunately, many find the work place to be a disappointment because there isn't that same system in place and hard work doesn't always equal high pay; in fact it is systematically not the case. Great piece Paul. 77 cents to the dollar is still an issue that we can’t forget about. I keep sensing that young women forget to think about this as an issue b/c their educational careers as of late make the world out to be such a meritocracy. Unfortunately, many find the work place to be a disappointment because there isn’t that same system in place and hard work doesn’t always equal high pay; in fact it is systematically not the case.

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