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Equal Pay Act of 1963

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The Equal Pay Act of 1963 is a United States labor law amending the Fair Labor Standards Act, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex (see Gender pay gap). [1]

41 relations: Barack Obama, Bennett Amendment, Bill (law), Blue-collar worker, Buffalo, New York, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Commerce, Economic inequality, Education Amendments of 1972, Employment, Equal Pay Act 1970, Equal pay for equal work, Equality Act 2010, Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, Gender pay gap, Hillary Clinton, John F. Kennedy, Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, Merit system, Minimum wage, Moral responsibility, New Frontier, Paycheck Fairness Act, President of the United States, Price floor, Prima facie, Rosa DeLauro, Seniority, Sexism, Skill, Standard of living, Strict liability, Thomas Sowell, United States Congress, United States labor law, Wage, White-collar worker, Winifred C. Stanley, Workforce.

Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017.

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Bennett Amendment

The Bennett Amendment is a US labor law provision in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VII, §703(h) passed to limit sex discrimination claims regarding pay to the rules in the Equal Pay Act of 1963.

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Bill (law)

A bill is proposed legislation under consideration by a legislature.

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Blue-collar worker

In the United States and (at least some) other English-speaking countries, a blue-collar worker is a working class person who performs manual labor.

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Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is the second largest city in the state of New York and the 81st most populous city in the United States.

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Bureau of Labor Statistics

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is a unit of the United States Department of Labor.

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

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Commerce

Commerce relates to "the exchange of goods and services, especially on a large scale.” Commerce includes legal, economic, political, social, cultural and technological systems that operate in any country or internationally.

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Economic inequality

Economic inequality is the difference found in various measures of economic well-being among individuals in a group, among groups in a population, or among countries.

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Education Amendments of 1972

Education Amendments of 1972 also sometimes known as the Higher Education Amendments of 1972 (Public Law No. 92‑318, 86 Stat. 235) was U.S. legislation enacted June 23, 1972.

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Employment

Employment is a relationship between two parties, usually based on a contract where work is paid for, where one party, which may be a corporation, for profit, not-for-profit organization, co-operative or other entity is the employer and the other is the employee.

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Equal Pay Act 1970

The Equal Pay Act 1970 is an Act of the United Kingdom Parliament which prohibits any less favourable treatment between men and women in terms of pay and conditions of employment.

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Equal pay for equal work

Equal pay for equal work is the concept of labor rights that individuals in the same workplace be given equal pay.

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Equality Act 2010

The Equality Act 2010 is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom, and has the same goals as the four major EU Equal Treatment Directives, whose provisions it mirrors and implements.

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Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938

The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (abbreviated as FLSA) is a United States labor law that creates the right to a minimum wage, and "time-and-a-half" overtime pay when people work over forty hours a week.

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Gender pay gap

The gender pay gap is the average difference between the remuneration for men and women who are working.

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Hillary Clinton

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) is an American politician and diplomat who served as the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, U.S. Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, 67th United States Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, and the Democratic Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election.

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John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.

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Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.

Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.,, is an employment discrimination decision of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009

The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 is a federal statute in the United States that was the first bill signed into law by US President Barack Obama on January 29, 2009.

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Merit system

The merit system is the process of promoting and hiring government employees based on their ability to perform a job, rather than on their political connections.

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Minimum wage

A minimum wage is the lowest remuneration that employers can legally pay their workers.

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Moral responsibility

In philosophy, moral responsibility is the status of morally deserving praise, blame, reward, or punishment for an act or omission, in accordance with one's moral obligations.

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New Frontier

The term New Frontier was used by liberal Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy in his acceptance speech in the 1960 United States presidential election to the Democratic National Convention at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum as the Democratic slogan to inspire America to support him.

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Paycheck Fairness Act

The Paycheck Fairness Act (and) is a proposed US labor law that would add procedural protections to the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and the Fair Labor Standards Act as part of an effort to address the gender pay gap in the United States.

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President of the United States

The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Price floor

A price floor is a government- or group-imposed price control or limit on how low a price can be charged for a product.

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Prima facie

Prima facie is a Latin expression meaning on its first encounter or at first sight.

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Rosa DeLauro

Rosa DeLauro (born March 2, 1943) is the U.S. Representative for, serving since 1991.

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Seniority

Seniority is the concept of a person or group of people taking precedence over another person or group because the former is either older than the latter or has occupied a particular position longer than the latter.

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Sexism

Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on a person's sex or gender.

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Skill

A skill is the ability to carry out a task with determined results often within a given amount of time, energy, or both.

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Standard of living

Standard of living refers to the level of wealth, comfort, material goods, and necessities available to a certain socioeconomic class in a certain geographic area, usually a country.

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Strict liability

In criminal and civil law, strict liability is a standard of liability under which a person is legally responsible for the consequences flowing from an activity even in the absence of fault or criminal intent on the part of the defendant.

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Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell (born June 30, 1930) is an American economist and social theorist who is currently Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

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United States Congress

The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the Federal government of the United States.

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United States labor law

United States labor law sets the rights and duties for employees, labor unions, and employers in the United States.

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Wage

A wage is monetary compensation (or remuneration, personnel expenses, labor) paid by an employer to an employee in exchange for work done.

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White-collar worker

In many countries (such as Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and United States), a white-collar worker is a person who performs professional, managerial, or administrative work.

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Winifred C. Stanley

Winifred Claire Stanley (August 14, 1909 Bronx, New York) – February 29, 1996 Kenmore, Erie County, New York) was an American politician and attorney from New York affiliated with the Republican Party. Stanley is known for her adamant women's rights advocation during the WWII war time period, her work as a prosecutor, and for being the first female assistant district attorney in Erie County. Although Stanley only served one term before her constituency was redistricted, she used her legislative standing to champion causes such as peacetime demobilization and equal pay regardless of sex.

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Workforce

The workforce or labour force (labor force in American English; see spelling differences) is the labour pool in employment.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Pay_Act_of_1963

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