Most GOP lawmakers oppose the measure, which they say is redundant and a burden on employers. Gender pay discrimination is already illegal, they point out.
“I don’t think it’s a good bill,” Sen. Richard Burr (N.C.), the top Republican on the Senate HELP Committee, told POLITICO. “We have three statutes on the books that don’t allow pay discrepancy today. We need a fourth one?”
They also worry the language could open up businesses to frivolous lawsuits.
The bill would be “exploiting the cause of pay fairness to send a windfall to trial lawyers,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said on the Senate floor Monday.
Women’s annual earnings were 82 percent of their male counterparts’ in 2020, according to the Labor Department. That gap widens dramatically by race: Black and Latina women holding a bachelor’s degree take home 65 percent of what white men with the same level of education do.
The pandemic has exacerbated the disparity, with women disproportionately impacted by layoffs, school closures and a child care shortage.
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