Kamala Harris, speaking in Las Vegas last week, unveiled a plan Monday putting the burden on large employers to show they don’t practice pay discrimination. Photo: Brian Cahn/Zuma Press By Ken Thomas May 20, 2019 6:00 a.m. ET WASHINGTON—Sen. Kamala Harris is proposing that large employers pay women on an equal basis with their male counterparts or face government fines, seeking a sweeping shift in the way the nation addresses pay inequity.
Previewing the plan at a Los Angeles rally Sunday, Ms. Harris said she would make a national priority of “closing that pay gap and holding corporations accountable for transparency.” She warned, “There will be penalties if they don’t.” Companies would be forced to disclose whether they have attained the certification on their websites, and it would be have to be disclosed to shareholders in their annual report.
Revenue generated from the fines would be used to provide for paid family and medical leave. The senator earlier proposed providing workers with up to 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave.
Yeah, because why not allow government to decide how companies hire and how they spend their money.... I mean after all, the government is so fiscally responsible.....
Maybe fine politicians for having dumb ideas?
Can we fine for lack of talent?
Maybe we could fine congressmen and women 1% for each campaign promise not met or 1% for each politically expedient false statement made or 1% for each budget busting idea. I could go on but what would be the point. Have a good day. God bless.
Ok, so we’re talking 2% on average. Those are the statistics, not the 20% BS Kamala is pushing.
Just sleep with your new boss (he might be married but don’t worry we know you’re ok with that) and go away
I can’t help but think, but these Democratic candidates running for president of their high school class. They are just a little strange.
Dems keep looking for ways to destroy the economy. One thing after another. Besides encouraging racism and baby killing, they hate to think the economy is thriving. Gotta keep the people enslaved to the government.
Lock up everyone
There is no gender wage gap, it’s a fake creation of feminist decades ago. It has zero empirical evidence to support it.
Truism if a Dem can't tax you they will fine you
If I were King of the forest!
She’s officially off the rails now. Just making up stuff to see if anything sticks.
Regardless of expierience, merit or timeframe wage ratio? Yep, she’s an idiot.
Pandering much?
The democRAT party must have found their candidates in an Insane asylum.
Isn’t this an EEOC issue? Are the employees filing complaints or did they accept the terms for the job offered? Are job offers different based on race or sex, or is it experience in the position?
And the revenue on this will be $15.
And did she bring these with her?
Interesting. This is the idea of someone who is running at 1% in the polls.
How to enforce that one. More bureaucracy
Great way to lose voters lol.
Hers the beauty of a capitalist society. If you believe you have been mistreated, pack your bags and leave. True for anyone and everyone!
Go ahead, please, please do this...very excited to see the amount of fines collected
The trial lawyers thank you.
More “headline porn” from the Democrats of another policy/program that has no chance of passing but gets them media attention!
KH for the People? Really? Zero chance to get nomination!
Simple. Don't employ women.
This seems excessive. The research has shown that the gender pay gap is a multifaceted issue. The 73 cents on the dollar is just a lie, but it’s more a career choice issue. The statistics are misleading but presidential candidates shouldnot be falling for debunked statistics.
Who determines equal value. The crazy Kamala.
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Women should be fined 10% of their salaries for not performing equal work & additional physical work they shove off onto male employees. Women are often eating meals at workstations, visiting other women employees, gossiping, smoking breaks&shopping on line during business hours.
😳 seems like the Dem field is a bunch of one uppers, only for the most absurd policy ideas.
She’s just spitballing now.
Dems only policy is fine fine fine... money goes to who pocket...
She better hope we don't fine politicians for having a charisma gap.
The punisher president. Thief.
Jesus, whatever Her Majesty wishes.
I’ve got a great idea, why not create an agency that can use the enormous power of the federal government to extort false claims for equal pay. We can call it the EEOC.
While most agree there is a gender pay gap it's not what democrats claim. They used combined census data to get their figures lumping all women together to calculate the disparity. Even Obama's census guy testified they are not equipped to break it down.
How in the world do u regulate whether people do the same job? Id say 10% of professional roles have comparable responsibilities. As a manager, every employee has a unique skill set so i assign them diff responsibilities based on thst skill set. 🍎& 🍊
Nothing like intrusive gov’t action on how private companies should pay their employees. Socialism in full effect
Vote for me and I will give everyone $1M
Punitive politics is akin to socialism. Eventually when you punish people and businesses, they get demoralized.
Does she know if Government agencies are doing this? Have they met targets she wishes to enforce on private sector? What are the facts?
Name one company doing this. Just one. This is a canard. Has been for a long time. I have worked for some of the biggest companies in the world and for 25 years + they have all had significant processes in place to prevent this.
And how about a fine for not having workers of all ages. So many are making 40 the new 60 and maybe 1% can retire at that age. kamalaharris ivankatrump business potus these 2 groups could be PROactive: useeoc aclu
Then the companies will write the cost/tax as a “business loss”!
I didn’t not realize Harris was so keen to be a communist dictator, seizing the profits of legally run businesses.
So companies will be fined 1% of profits based on a myth? 😂
What about equal performance?
SenKamalaHarris is floundering around trying to find a way to become 'relevant.' She is just another USEFUL IDIOT of the ALT-LEFT who has NOTHING to offer the American people. Her bid for the presidency is just another SOCIALIST DEM 'joke.' VoteRedToSaveAmerica
get a proper job Harris
I absolutely believe in equal pay but this is beyond extreme and will not achieve equal pay goa
KamalaHarris really needs to lay out precisely how her proposals would be executed. The media needs to demand it. So many of these progressive proposals are impossible to execute and just pie-in-the-sky nonsense.
How about the gap between CEO and hourly wages for all employees that climbes with inflation. Nothing pisses me off more than a company with increasing profits, increasing CEO pay, higher inflation and then no employee raise. Bull shit.
The MLB pitcher that wins 20 or more games consistently year over year is paid more than the pitcher whose W-L is worse; each doing the same job! Message: Equal performance, equal pay!
She will never make it to general elections. Taxing as a social punishment reminds me of the Soviet Union, China, Cuba etc.
Which gender gap is she talking about, and if some male staff identify as female it will negate the tax. Fucking stupid idea!
What if by forcing diversity the company profits go down? Can they get a huge tax break for following your stupid ass law which serves no point other than to fuck with a business so u can feel better?
Wages work according to supply and demand. She probably never read Friedrich Hayek on letting the market runs its course. Any smart alec who tries to force water upstream will end up doing more bad than good for the economy.
When your polling in 8th place you start tearing companies down. DNC
more DumbIdeas with the Never Be President KamalaHarris
I’ve actually seen many studies that there isn’t a gender gap, as much as a women with child gap. Childless women make very close to men. The difference is women with kids and childless women/men. That’s the gap.
Yawn, pay based on qualifications..
Bullshit. Wages paid by private employers to individuals are none of the government’s business. We don’t want your nanny state.
The Queen of Pander. Brought to u by the former prosecutor who had the nerve to rewrite her personal narrative to suggest she never locked up drug addicts & denies due process to those on the right to appease the left.She assesses others’ guilt based on popular opinion
And Senator Harris wants to be the one to arbitrarily decide who is compliant and who is not. Typical.
Government should not regulate business given the government cannot balance the budget
Social engineering by socialists
There is no gender pay gap for equal jobs and experience!
She wants to reward bad performances.
Men tend to shoulder a higher burden of financial responsibility than women and thus Men need to be paid extra unless we reach a situation where both men and women share 50-50 in financial responsibility and i doubt that will happen any time soon.
No!
Sounds just like A liberal.. we will punish you if you do not do what we say or want you to do.. the only way they get what they want is threats and punishment... sad commentary for liberal Dems
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She continues to grope for anything to tax
I guess the silver lining would be that once you start involving fines, you’d think they’d have to at least start calculating the gender wage gap with some semblance of accuracy, not like today...
Socialism in action. Ignore her FUD.
I totally agree with Senator Harris except it’s putting government into private businesses and the right will scream and undermine this effort....I love the idea just not sure on her way of implementing it
Wow, she is worse then I thought.....
Define equal value? Too vague. Only the lawyers will win.
Wow. We really need to start pumping out more qualified female engineers if companies are going to be able to avoid fines...we also need male models to get paid as much as women models or does it not matter if women make more?
and politicians should be fined 1% for every trillion of debt that is carried over year to year. KamalaHarris
This would be a disaster
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There is no pay gap. Equal value is subjective.
The gender wage gap leaves a BIG opportunity for non-binary gender people to get a slice of the pie beyond the likes of which we have never seen with men or women before.
Who gets to decide