(Hat tip: The Corner)
The Democrats are pushing two bills through Congress that will have detrimental affects on your ability to get a job as they make employing people (especially woman) more expensive and more risky.
The Washington Times reports that one is the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act which we already discussed.
The other is a trial lawyer's dream called the The Paycheck Fairness Act. And it will, according (PDF file) to Roger Clegg:
[E]liminate the requirement that the claimed disparity be between jobs in the same "establishment" of a business. Thus it will now be possible for a woman in Alabama to complain that she is being paid less than a man in Alaska.
And the cost of living in Alaska is much more than Alabama.
But it gets worse because the act tells the Secretary of Labor to:
"[D]evelop guidelines to enable employers to evaluate job categories based on objective criteria . . . with the goal of eliminating unfair pay disparities between occupations traditionally dominated by men or women."
In other words: the market will not determine the pay for a job, but the Department of Labor will based on "objective criteria" that may find truck drives (a traditionally male dominated job) should be paid the same as receptionists (a traditionally female dominated job). Even though there is a shortage of skilled truck drivers and (probably) a glut of skilled receptionists.
This is a trial lawyer's dream. And under the law, the defense (the employer) has to prove he's not discriminating. So if you pay receptionists less than truck drivers, you might be in for a lawsuit where you are assumed guilty until you prove your innocence (good luck).
This is another Democrat job-killing payback to the unions and the trial lawyers.
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