Legislative Alert
Letter Supporting Legislation That Would Address the Gender Wage Gap and the Lack of Protected Sick Time
… Dear Senator: On behalf of the AFL-CIO, I urge you to support the Paycheck Fairness Act (S.728), and the Healthy Families Act (S.1664). Both bills are long overdue to address the gender wage gap and lack of job-protected sick time, two issues that have greatly contributed to inequality … years after enactment of the Equal Pay Act, which made it illegal for employers to pay men more than women for the same work, wage disparities still persist in both the private and public sectors, at every educational level, across the country. …