Listen to a lively discussion with Kathy Black from Philadelphia’s Coalition of Labor Union Women and Pennsylvania NOW President Caryn Hunt on PhillyLabor Radio on the subject of Equal Pay for Equal Work, a concept unions have promoted all along!
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Equal Pay for Equal Work!
Pennsylvania NOW President Caryn Hunt testified September 18th before the House Labor and Industry Committee in support of House Bill 1890, which would close loopholes in the existing Pay Equity Act of 1959 (yep, 1959) and end pay secrecy, the practice of not allowing employees to share their salaries. Hunt testified in July before the…
PA NOW Testifies at Pay Equity Hearing
Pennsylvania NOW President Caryn Hunt will testify today, 2PM at Philadelphia’s City Hall, in a hearing held by the Pennsylvania House Democratic Policy Committee on House Bill 1250, which would increase the penalties to businesses who discriminate against their workers on the basis of gender and break the Pay Equity law (enacted in 1959). Here…
Equal Pay Day: Equal Work Deserves Equal Pay
Today is Equal Pay Day. April 8th marks the day each year – 98 days in – that women catch up to what their male counterparts earned the year before. On average, women in the US earn 77 cents for each dollar earned by a man. Women of color earn less, on average – 65…
PA Reps Sims and Molchany Introduce Pay Equity Law
Pennsylvania Representatives Brian Sims and Erin Molchany unveiled the pay equity law they were co-sponsoring on December 11, as part of the first package of bills rolling out for the Pennsylvania Agenda for Women’s Health. They officially introduced it on January 6th.
