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07 April 2017

In One Executive Order, Trump Revoked Years of Workplace Protections for Women 6APR17

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BOHICA LADIES! THIS is no surprise, the drumpf/trump-pence administration has a neanderthal mentality about women and their place in all aspects of American society. Fotze ivanka drumpf/trump is a greedy, conniving hure and I am sure she will be called out for what she is and what her real agenda is in Berlin. From +Mother Jones.....

In One Executive Order, Trump Revoked Years of Workplace Protections for Women

He pulled parental leave and sexual harassment protections the week before Equal Pay Day.





President Trump and his daughter Ivanka meet with female small business owners at the White House last month 
In 2014, President Barack Obama signed the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces executive order. It required companies with federal contracts to heed 14 different labor and civil rights laws, including ones aimed at protecting parental leave, weeding out discrimination against women and minorities, and ensuring equal pay for women and fair processes surrounding workplace sexual harassment allegations.
Last week, Trump revoked this order, leaving workers at thousands of companies much more vulnerable to a host of abuses from their employers—and undoing protections meant to create more equitable workplaces for women.
"We have an executive order that essentially forces women to pay to keep companies in business that discriminate against them—with their own tax dollars," Noreen Farrell, the director of Equal Rights Advocates, told NBC. "It's an outrage."
One provision of the now-revoked order required paycheck transparency by companies holding federal contracts, in which they had to provide all employees with detailed statements of their hours and compensation—a measure that's particularly important for protecting workers against wage theft. A second provision that was jettisoned banned the use of forced arbitration clauses by federal contractors in handling sexual harassment or discrimination claims in their workplaces. These types of clauses—which require allegations to be settled privately outside of court in usually secret proceedings—are a way for companies to preemptively keep sexual harassment allegations out of the public eye.
Trump's order also revokes the requirement that companies seeking federal contracts disclose three year's worth of violations of the Equal Employment Opportunity executive order, first signed in 1965 by President Lyndon Johnson and since amended to include protections surrounding gender. The order now states that companies with federal contracts "will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin."
Nor will companies bidding on federal contracts be required to reveal their last three year's worth of violations of the Family and Medical Leave Act, which requires that many companies provide 12 weeks of unpaid leave to new parents.
The day before President Trump signed this order, it was reported that his daughter Ivanka—who has regularly spoken about her father's plans to improve protections for working moms, and who is currently pushing a child care tax credit as part of the administration's upcoming tax reform initiative—would represent the United States at an upcoming women's empowerment summit in Berlin. Here is her tweet:


07 April 2014

Urge Congress to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act, sign the petition today! 26MAR14


IF congress doesn't pass the +Lilly Ledbetter Paycheck Fairness Act this year, if our government fails to make equal pay for men and women the law of the land this year, it would be a dream come true to see women organize, nation wide, and hit the corporations who are directing the politicians who are keeping this from becoming law by boycotting Black Friday and the entire weekend. Money talks, and if women just had the courage to put aside all their other differences for just one three day weekend in November and united in a boycott of all shopping for the entire weekend I bet just the threat of it would get congress to act. Right now we can all help put pressure on congress to pass this bill by signing this petition. Click the link, and then start the discussion of a 2014 Black Friday boycott.... 

Please join Daily Kos and the National Partnership for Women & Families in urging Congress to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act. Click here to sign the petition.

In honor of Equal Pay Day coming up in a few weeks, the National Partnership for Women & Families is working to remind the country about how badly the wage gap hurts women and their families.

Women who work full time, year-round in this country are still paid about 77 cents for every dollar paid to men. That’s groceries hardworking women can’t afford to buy, rent they can’t pay, and gasoline they can’t put in their cars. The Paycheck Fairness Act would close loopholes in current law to stop wage discrimination and promote fair pay.

Every member of Congress should support this bill.

The National Partnership has been responsible for some landmark victories over the years -- including the passage of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, key provisions in Obamacare, and so much more. Let's help add the Paycheck Fairness Act to that list.

Help convince Congress to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act.

Keep fighting,
Rachel Colyer
Campaign Director, Daily Kos