In: Civil Rights| Discrimination| Equal Pay| Maine Women's Lobby| Olympia Snowe| Supreme Court| Susan Collins| Women's Leadership
27 May 2009Maine Fair and Independent Federal Courts Coalition Lauds Historic Nomination
(Augusta) Today in a news release, organizations representing Maine people celebrated the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court.
“In selecting Judge Sotomayor to be his nominee to the highest court, President Obama has chosen someone who is superbly qualified and has outstanding [...]
In: Equal Pay| Fair Pay| Labor| Olympia Snowe| Press Link| Susan Collins
1 May 2009Senators Snowe and Collins will have an opportunity to make some changes to the Paycheck Fairness Act which will come before the United States Senate soon. According to an editorial by the Portland Press Herald, the bill could use a little tweaking. They state, “Overall, putting more teeth into requirements that employers pay women fairly [...]
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24 Apr 2009Maine stands out cause we have our OWN Equal Pay Day. By statute – yes the Lobby had a little something to do with this - celebrated each year on the first Tuesday in April.
Now, we get to celebrate again (ok, celebrate is the wrong word, since we’re essentially talking about how long into the 2009 [...]
In the early part of this decade, Maine lawmakers took action to address the gender wage gap — in which women earned less than men for comparable work — by passing legislation requiring full implementation of Maine’s Equal Pay Law.
But as critical as this law has been, Maine’s wage gap is actually widening. In 2007, [...]