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Equal Pay Day flag flying on March 21, 2014 in Alsbach, Germany . Equal Pay Day is the symbolic day dedicated to raising awareness of the gender pay gap.In the United States, this date symbolizes how far into the year the average median woman must work (in addition to their earnings last year) in order to have earned what the average median man had earned the entire previous year.
Retired footballer Brandi Chastain talking about the importance of equal pay regarding the U.S. women's national soccer team pay discrimination claim in 2019 In the US, women's average annual salary has been estimated as 78% to 83% of that of men's average salary.
Equal pay for equal work [1] is the concept of labour rights that individuals in the same workplace be given equal pay. [1] It is most commonly used in the context of sexual discrimination, in relation to the gender pay gap. Equal pay relates to the full range of payments and benefits, including basic pay, non-salary payments, bonuses and ...
Story at a glance Today is Equal Pay Day, an annual reminder of how much women have to work in order to earn the same amount of money as men. Working women have made strides in their earning power ...
Mar. 25—MORGANTOWN — Wednesday was National Equal Pay Day and a group of legislators and other equal pay advocates held a virtual meeting to promote four bills aimed at ensuring fair pay for ...
The Equal Pay Act of 1963 is a United States labor law amending the Fair Labor Standards Act, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex (see gender pay gap). It was signed into law on June 10, 1963, by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program. [ 3 ]
In order to find an employer in violation of the Equal Pay Act, a plaintiff must prove that "(1) the employer pays different wages to employees of the opposite sex; (2) the employees perform equal work on jobs requiring equal skill, effort, and responsibility; and (3) the jobs are performed under similar working conditions."[1] Even if the ...
If you are motivated to create even a small butterfly garden, you will be rewarded by those who, besides butterflies, also need the life support you have provided: hummingbirds, moths, and bees ...