Michigan Votes Forum

Introduced in the House on April 19, 2007, to establish a government “commission on pay equity” to “develop definitions, models, and guidelines for employers and employees on pay equity.” See also House Bill 4625, which would prohibit paying a person a wage or salary that is less than an amount established under a proposed statutory interpretation of comparable wages. Members of the commission would have to include representatives from the Michigan Department of Civil Rights, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, the Michigan Women's Commission, the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, The Farm Bureau, the AFL-CIO union, the United Auto Workers union, the Michigan Small Business Association, the National Organization for Women, and the Michigan Women's Studies Association

The vote was 57 in favor, 50 opposed and 3 not voting

(House Roll Call 21 at House Journal 12)

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Michigan Department of Civil Rights, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, the Michigan Women's Commission, the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, the AFL-CIO union, the United Auto Workers union, the Michigan Small Business Association, the National Organization for Women, and the Michigan Women's Studies Association. Clearly experts all in comparable worth studies. None of these brilliant experts would have any bias at all! How about establishing a commission to draft rules and definitions to determine the last digit of pi? Even if you put Steven Hawkings, Blaise Pascal and Euclid on the committee they won't be able to do the impossible.

I had to check the calender and make sure this didn't come out on April Fools Day. You guys come up with idiocy like this and still are so stupid that you can't figure out why business leaves michiganistan? Get real jobs, please. We can't afford you anymore. Stop doing anything, we will still pay you, just sit at your government supplied desks and play solitare. At least then you won't be hurting anything.

Wow, I wonder, how hard did Ms. Law have to strain and grunt to pass this elephant dump? I'm guessing some post-defecatory surgery was needed to tighten things back up.

Put people like Law on a comparable worth pay scale. That would be a negative number.

Do these people even know they are Marxist? Would they care if they did? Fools being voted in by fools.

The voters form a politicians pay association and decide what you socialists are worth.

When did we become the Socialist Republic of Michigan? Maybe this type of legislation helps explain why twice as many people are leaving Michigan as are coming in and businesses are failing or moving out at record rates.

I was wondering how long it would take these folks to come up with a good law. I now propose that the “comparable worth” of a politician is about equal to a wino living under a bridge. Wait, the wino is actually worth more since the only person he hurts is himself and these mental midgets are destroying the entire state.

All hope is lost.

Another example of government sticking their nose where it doesn't belong. Its no wonder we can't attract new business. Who would what to do business in a state that increases taxes, has no right to work law and passes this type of law. If we aren't at rock bottom yet it will be here very soon.

Has anybody noticed the rest of the world is kicking our butts? Can't find much at WalMart without a Made in China tag. This legislation should have the Chinese giving eachother the high five. Companies will be forced to move out of the state! A job is better than no job. No job is what we will have after this brilliant move. See you in South Carolina!

WTH, are the only commenters at this site John Birchers and KKK members. Why is the idea of equal and just pay for workers such an abhorent idea? May I assume that the commenters above would like to continue the process of paying women three-quarters of what men make for doing the same job? Kudos to Representative Law for standing up for Michigan's working families and communities they support. Without just compensation for work performed there will not be any money to buy the services or products these employers provide. This should be obvious even to the Troglodytes writing above.

"KKK" is rather uncivil, however. Clearly there's a broad spectrum of legitimate viewpoints represented, though. The problem with comparable worth laws is that they place a government board in the position of making jugdements that are inherently subjective and arbitrary. No matter how many procedural hop-skotch steps you insert into the process, there's just no squaring that circle. In the end no employer and no employee knows what the law requires, which means there IS no law - the rule of law is deeply compromised. For all the good intentions, I really don't think we want to burden nation with an army of hundreds of thousands of pay-rate commissars making judgements one worker and employer at a time, and that's just what this would require. It's not liberal in either the old or new sense of the word - it's fascistic. Jack McHugh

Ok, why the hell doesn't this disaster of a gov't just RUN THE BUSINESSES for ALL the BUSINESSES in the state? Telling an employer how MUCH they have to pay their workers? I bet the trial lawyers LOVE this POS. There will be 100's/1000's of lawsuits to begin with. But you know what? It won't last because as a business person, you would have to be RETARED to start or keep a business in MI! So soon there will be no one TO sue. In a few yrs, there will be only state workers and welfare slugs in MI. Anyone with 1/4 of the brain power of these mental midgets will have long since LEFT. IDIOTS! Hit the switch when you leave. Signed, New Florida Resident

Florida: -1

Mi -1 hard working freedom loving tax paying responsible honest citzen. FL +1 You -1 brain. Low life slug, whining mommy's boy, IQ >70 (moron must work for the gov't) Go figure. Sorry pal, I won't be paying for your free loading dirtball do nothing CRAP anymore. Bet that pisses you off. Oh, wait, you're too stupid to know when you been insulted.

Florida: -1-1 Florida keeps going deeper into the hole on these transfer deals. (Signed: A Hard Working, Highly Productive Michigan Taxpayer)

NOT FOR LONG!

Let have everyone make equal money, workers, bosses, the unemployed, winos etc. heck, winos are people too and they are probably drunks because capitalism and freedom have failed them, it can't have anything to do with bad decisions that they made. This is going to be great. The all knowing government overlords can run everything and give us all an allowance.