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Contact: Ben Klein, National Consumers League (202) 835-3323, benk@nclnet.org<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n Washington, DC–Today, the Senate minority stopped the Paycheck Fairness Act from moving forward with a vote of 53-44, stymying the effort to get 60 votes. The nation\u2019s pioneering consumer and labor advocacy organization, the National Consumers League (NCL), is asking the Senate minority to join with the Senate majority and allow debate on the Act.<\/p>\n The Paycheck Fairness Act, which updates the Equal Pay Act of 1963, would give workers stronger tools to fight wage discrimination in the workplace. In order to start discussions on the Act, the Senate needed 60 votes. President Obama took Executive action on equal pay during an event at the White House yesterday.<\/p>\n “Today, a woman is the primary breadwinner in 40 percent of American households. When women receive less pay than their male counterparts, it’s a family issue, not only a women’s issue,\u201d said NCL Executive Director Sally Greenberg. \u201cWe ask all the Senators to support working women and allow debate on this bill.\u201d<\/p>\n The Paycheck Fairness Act would help to combat the gender wage gap by prohibiting employers from punishing employees for sharing salary information with their coworkers,\u00a0enhancing employees\u2019 ability to learn about wage disparities and to assess whether they are experiencing discrimination.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s wrong that women, today, on average, make only 77 cents for every dollar earned by a man. For women of color, the wage gap is even wider; African-American women make only 64 cents, and Hispanic women make only 54 cents,\u201d said Michell McIntyre, Outreach Director of Labor & Worker Rights of NCL.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIn these tough economic times, families need to bring home every dollar they\u2019re entitled to.\u201d<\/p>\n Additional provisions of the Paycheck Fairness Act would require the\u00a0Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)\u00a0to survey available pay data and issue regulations within 18 months requiring employers to submit additional pay data about employees, identified by race, sex, and national origin. These data would enhance the EEOC\u2019s ability to detect violations of law and improve enforcement.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Act would also allow employees to receive the same remedies for gender-based pay discrimination that are currently available to those subjected to discrimination based on race and ethnicity.<\/p>\n ###<\/p>\n About the National Consumers League <\/strong> April 9, 2014 Contact: Ben Klein, National Consumers League (202) 835-3323, benk@nclnet.org\u00a0 Washington, DC–Today, the Senate minority stopped the Paycheck Fairness Act from moving forward with a vote of 53-44, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10316,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions\/10316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The National Consumers League, founded in 1899, is America\u2019s pioneer consumer organization. Its mission is to protect and promote social and economic justice for consumers and workers in the United States and abroad. For more information, visit\u00a0www.nclnet.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"