Go ask a the lawyer for the woman who doesn't make as much as a man.
um,
ideally women should make as much as men for the same job with all other things being equivalent e.g. relevant experience. on the other hand, at least in a freedom to work state/under employment-at-will, when you take a job, you take the pay rate you negotiated... so... there's also historical hiring rates - perhaps you simply can't afford to hire at a rate you once did.
still, i'd be pissed if you were making more money than me at the same job because you are so much prettier.
in a larger sense i'm not sure i agree that it is the lawyers. i think they are a
product of our "i'm owed" culture, not the proximate cause of me, me, me. then again relatively small numbers of agitators have had profound impacts in many situations, so i could be convinced otherwise...
We were just told by the VP to turn down a guy for a driving job. A former truckdriver who went to work for the Florida Highway Patrol, wants to leave FL to return back to Indiana but doesn't want to be a cop anymore. He took, and passed, the drivers test, at one of our Florida branches. He passed all the federal paperwork. He was ready to pack his U-haul & head up here & to start ASAP. Our VP saw his app & said that it would set a bad precedence (not having immediate prior experience).
Lawyers
that doesn't sound like a very good decision on the part of the VP, but it is his or her right to make that decision. so, what, you're saying is that
a) weenies bitch and moan about equal pay while people willing to work aren't getting hired because...
b) people like your VP are too wuss to do something that might cause bureaucratic annoyance and
c) potentially expose the company to (more) liability when they get sued because of an accident where the plaintiff atty. makes inquiries into hiring requirements and uses them to suggest the company hires less-experienced drivers to save a buck. "blatant abrogation of usual and customary duties to protect the safety of OH WOULD YOU THINKS OF THE CHILDREN!!!!!"
yeah.
hey, i didn't say they weren't opportunistic schmucks...