Obama’s Regulations to Close Gender Wage Gap Will Hurt Your Pay, Workplace Flexibility

New reporting requirements introduced by the Obama administration today would require companies to report to the federal government what they pay their employees by race, gender, and ethnicity. While this may sound relatively harmless on the surface, the new reporting requirements and threats employed by government bureaucrats about how this data will be used against businesses will encourage more employers to adopt rigid pay structures to protect against legal claims. This will hurt workers’ pay and workplace flexibility. It is already illegal for employers to discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex. Two statutes in particular protect individuals from discrimination in pay and employment based on these protected factors. They are Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and The Equal Pay Act of 1963. More...