@okie,
okie wrote:
Cycloptichorn wrote:
This is a great bill and you're a jerk if you oppose it. Women and minorities should have a right to sue if they find out they are being discriminated against, and how the hell are they supposed to find out within 180 days, Okie?
What bad business effects will there be out of this? Businesses will be forced to pay people equally no matter their gender or race. Heaven forbid!
Cycloptichorn
If even half of the claims and lawsuits were legitimate, you might have a small point, cyclops, but I don't believe it.
So what? Nobody's asking you to believe it, and your 'belief' is immaterial to the law.
A lawyer will try to claim something to make money. I used to work for a corporation, and as a geologist, there were a few women in the field, not many. Well, guess what, at that time most of them had families, children to take care of, so the managers gave them a pass, they went easy on them because they couldn't travel like the men, they couldn't do this, they couldn't do that, for a myriad of reasons, thus they were not worth as much even though they had the same job grade as others, and although their pay was probably very good from what I understand, they may not have been paid as much on average as the men, so now, guess what, any whiner or complainer can go back and claim discrimination. What a crock! What a nanny state! Its all payback to a bunch of whiney lawyers. We need to kick the lawyers out of Washington and things would improve.
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Can you be more sexist, Okie? I think you could if you tried.
If the women couldn't perform the requirements of the job, they shouldn't have the job. If they had the same grade as the men, they should be getting paid the same. Period. There's no real room for discussion on this.
Even the Supreme Court agrees with that. The only question was one of the statute of limitations, which was set unreasonably low at 180 days. It's quite difficult to find out that you are being discriminated against, you expect people to have no recourse if they find out on day 181?
Nice piece of legislation, will lead to more equality for all, and folks who think women don't deserve as much pay - such as yourself - are just going to have to suck it up.
In fact, you're going to have to do a lot of that in the next few years. Hope you're ready for it. And remember that you have nobody to blame but the Republican party itself, which suffered it's greatest losses in 70 years thanks to Bush and the idiocy of your leaders in Congress.
Cycloptichorn