A popular adage states: ‘hard work pays.’ Well‚ I am not writing this to dispute the wisdom of this saying. All I am saying is: smart work pays better than hard work. This is why managers in a construction firm for example gets paid astronomically higher wages than the labourers. No one will dispute the fact that labourers do heavy‚ tiring physical work in the sun and the rain. Yet they get paid low wages‚ while the management get transported from their air-conditioned homes to their air-conditioned
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Equal Pay Act There are many laws and regulations that govern how the American work force is compensated. In most cases‚ the laws are set forth to protect the employee against unfair compensation practices. Many of the issues Americans face today are the same issues that existed many years ago. Issues involving labor relations‚ unions‚ and men versus women are many of the same issues we face today involving compensation. The Equal Pay Act is on of great interest to me as it covers compensation
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Gender Pay Gap | Are women paid fairly in the workplace? | March 14‚ 2008 • Volume 18‚ Issue 11 | By Thomas J. Billitteri Introduction Former Goodyear manager Lilly Ledbetter won more than $3 million in a pay-discrimination suit against the tire firm‚ but the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the verdict in 2007 for filing her complaint too late. (AFP/Getty Images/Fannie Carrier) | More than four decades after Congress passed landmark anti-discrimination legislation — including the Equal Pay Act
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Pay for Time-Not-Worked: Pool Paper Assignment #3 Liliana Hernandez-Corniel HR586- Labor Relations Prof. J. Robinson May 27‚ 2011 In this day in age‚ depending on what kind of industry you work in there will definitely be non-productive time as well as productive time. However‚ the employer can never really nail down how much time the employee actually does not work unless you actually sit down to analyze and see how much your company is losing out. As
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Does crime pay? This is one of the most debated questions that has hit our shores in recent year. Ever since the introduction of basic human rights and many successful rallies against prisoner abuse‚ prisons have and are becoming increasingly pleasant places to lived. In this essay I aim to cover both sides of the story and give advice to the government on what is the next step. During my recent research I have found that roughly the average price to put one prisoner into prison cost £95‚000
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gap is simply a fallacy and has not in fact existed since the Equal Pay Act was enacted in 1963. The period of the strongest wage convergence between men and women was in the 1980s‚ and progress has been slower and more uneven since then. On one hand‚ people do not believe in the existence of the wage gap. These
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The American Association of University Women tackled the pay gap question by looking at workers of the same educational attainment耀ame kind of college‚ same grades揺olding the same kinds of jobs‚ and having made the same choices about marriage and number of kids. They found that college-educated women earn 5 percent less the first year out of school than their
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of the gender wage gap. There are many obstacles for women in the workforce‚ but a major problem women continue to face is the chance to receive equal pay to men in equal jobs. With lower salaries‚ many women have trouble supporting their family and are only able to afford the necessities. Actions improving women’s opportunities to earn equal pay for equal work are not effective in the United States‚ but could be improved with support and legislative changes implemented by the president and his staff
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that exists today and what factors contribute to it‚ we must delve into how it originated. During World War II a large number of American women began working‚ and in 1942 the National War Labor Board urged employers to voluntarily adjust wage and salary rates for females to that of men for
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therefore need a larger savings. Not only will the close of the pay gap benefit
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