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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:


25 September 2016

36 Reasons Why you Should Thank Our Unions

Unions:
THINK unions are a joke, a waste of time and money? Really? You have no idea what your working life would be if it wasn't for unions. Here is a list of rights and benefits we all have because of unions....

36 Reasons Why you Should Thank Our Unions

Did you know that labor unions made the following 36 things possible?


  1. Weekends without work
  2. All breaks at work, including your lunch breaks
  3. Paid vacation
  4. Family & Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
  5. Sick leave
  6. Social Security
  7. Minimum wage
  8. Civil Rights Act/Title VII - prohibits employer discrimination
  9. 8-hour work day
  10. Overtime pay
  11. Child labor laws
  12. Occupational Safety & Health Act (OSHA)
  13. 40-hour work week
  14. Workers' compensation (workers' comp)
  15. Unemployment insurance
  16. Pensions
  17. Workplace safety standards and regulations
  18. Employer health care insurance
  19. Collective bargaining rights for employees
  20. Wrongful termination laws
  21. Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA)
  22. Whistleblower protection laws
  23. Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA) - prohibits employers from using a lie detector test on an employee
  24. Veteran's Employment and Training Services (VETS)
  25. Compensation increases and evaluations (i.e. raises)
  26. Sexual harassment laws
  27. Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)
  28. Holiday pay
  29. Employer dental, life, and vision insurance
  30. Privacy rights
  31. Pregnancy and parental leave
  32. Military leave
  33. The right to strike
  34. Public education for children
  35. Equal Pay Acts of 1963 & 2011 - requires employers pay men and women equally for the same amount of work
  36. Laws ending sweatshops in the United States