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Originally Posted by QUINNSCOMMENTARY
Here's why. Let's say in my example we hire both people and give both a nice raise, they are happy and take the job, all is well.
Now, a year later the government does and audit and sees a man and women doing the same job, but being paid differently. Well, they are paid differently so the current employer gets blamed for not paying equally when in fact the woman come to work making a lot more money than she did before. Why would any new employer hire he if it had to pay her an increase several times more than a man just so they pay was "equal." There are a lot of variables as to why two people may not be making the same such as tenure, experience, performance.
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Well then if one or more of these variables come into play , then we are no longer talking equal work.
Here is a very simple example , I used it in describing to a person on another forum that didn't quite have a grasp what equal meant in the context of pay and work. That is why the 3rd worker is called yourself .
Keep in mind the article I linked to is talking about to much government involvement.
In theory or on paper , equal pay for equal work is absolutely the fair and right way to be.
But in real life it doesn't work that way.
Lets say there are 3 people yourself being one of the three. All three are at work and are making ' hand made' birthday cake candles .
and being paid a hourly wage.
All three start work at the same time take breaks same ...
One of the workers spends more time talking on the call to her boyfriend and gets 44 candles made in an eight hour day.
The second one has a sore toe and spends a lot of time fiddling with her shoe and gets 57 candles made in the same eight hours.
The third , yourself is very single minded and hardworking and get 324 candles made during your eight hour day ,but on pay day all three go home with the same exact amount of pay.
Now logic tells us the other two didn't do equal work so the theory " equal pay for equal work. but with the government regulations and rules and so forth and so on
The 2 women that had less production should have been approached and reprimanded by a supervisor if their behaviour continued. Worker three should have been given recognition for their diligence.
But, Due to the management's hands being tied by collective bargaining agreements, and unreasonable labor laws, this type of disparity is the norm in today's workplace. It seems a a sense of entitlement is replacing the work ethic.