Why Winning Matters: Equal pay for women, sick time for all workers on the way to becoming law in NJ

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NOTE: PLEASE SHOW THIS TO ANYONE WHO REFUSED TO VOTE FOR PHIL MURPHY BECAUSE HE WAS "TOO CORPORATE".



Working women in New Jersey could soon have one of the nation's strongest laws guaranteeing pay equity after lawmakers moved Monday to pass a measure that would ban employers from paying them less than men for "substantially similar work."

The legislation, which would give women and minorities a better chance at prevailing in pay-discrimination cases and increase the damages they could win, now heads to the desk of Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy, who has signaled he will sign it.

“This is a very emotional day for me, knowing the fact that we are making history here in New Jersey, history for the United States,” said Assemblywoman Pamela Lampitt, D-Camden, who has led the fight for the legislation along with Sen. Loretta Weinberg, D-Teaneck. “This bill will give our daughters a better chance — a better chance of a future and equal pay and to be equally respected.”

The Assembly also advanced a separate bill that would require employers to provide paid sick leave for full- and part-time workers. That measure, which has yet to clear the Senate, has also been heralded as a long-overdue protection for working women.



https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/2018/03/26/equal-pay-women-sick-time-all-workers-way-being-law-nj/453668002/

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1. K&R

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2. That is so great! People called Terry McAuliffe corporate and he was a great governor.

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3. So tired of the corporate meme...what do some think people should do? People work at corporations...

should they be stigmatized because of this? I hate hate those who trade in 'Purity' so rigid...as if unless you are exactly like them or some fictional Democrat or non-Democrat, you are not good enough for the Democratic Party. This sort of attitude is why we have lost important elections...2000,2004,2010 and 2016. Big tent is the only way we ever had a majority and the only way we will ever have a majority. Look at the Senate and that is clear.