Topic of the Week

Pay Discrimination

For example, in 2017, women earned 82% of what men earned, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of median hourly earnings of both full- and part-time workers in the United States. Based on this estimate, it would take an extra 47 days of work for w

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Blog of the Week

Ivanka Trump promised her dad would deliver a great family leave plan. Here’s what we got.

Two years later, the Trump administration is no closer to accomplishing this goal than they were when Ivanka and her father told prospective voters and working parents that they could be trusted to deliver on paid leave and thus deserved their votes.

Thought for the Week

"This Bill of Rights is intended to be more than an extension of our current workplace protections for domestic workers. We see it as a statement of our collective values as Americans, a statement on how we respect all working people, regardless of whether they work in an office or in a home."

–Rep. Pramila Jayapal, Sen. Kamala Harris and NDWA President Ai-jen Poo on a new proposed National Domestic Workers Bill of Rights.

List of the Week

from Workplace Fairness

Top Searches in Discrimination This Week: 

• Sexual/Gender Discrimination
• Proving Employment Discrimination
• Pay Discrimination
• Religious Discrimination
• Pregnancy Discrimination

 

Top Five News Headlines

1. How to respond to a joke about #MeToo
2. NLRB’s Handling of Joint Employer Petitions: Fodder for Lawsuits
3. Republicans To Hold Their First Hearing On The Minimum Wage Since Taking The House In 2010
4. New jobs report shows that the economy is steady but wages are lagging
5. Despite #MeToo, most women don’t see a change in the workplace