In: Uncategorized
19 Jun 2009(Yeah, I can’t explain the donuts reference except that I’m hungry, and I mentioned bagels last week – figure I better give donuts their proper due.) Anyway, I’m pretty psyched about a recent editorial by the Bangor Daily News called “Equal Pay Helps All.” “The fact that women in the same job make only 78 [...]
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 [...]
AAUW posted a round up of all the media covering the 2009 equal pay day. It is really worth checking out!
In: Equal Pay|Events|Olympia Snowe|Susan Collins|Uncategorized
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 [...]
In: Equal Pay|Press Link
24 Feb 2009A bill sponsored by Sen. Deb Simpson, D-Auburn, that would allow employees to ask colleagues how much they earn without fear of retribution from their employer passed unanimously out of the Legislature’s Labor Committee on Monday according to the Sun Journal. The goal of the legislation is to shrink the pay gap between working Maine [...]
In: Equal Pay|Press Link
5 Feb 2009Should employees be allowed to discuss their wages at work? WCSH takes a look…
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 [...]