Comments on: Pay Equity: Did the Ignatieff Liberals Vote Against “a basic human right”? http://lawiscool.com/2009/12/10/pay-equity-did-the-ignatieff-liberals-vote-against-a-basic-human-right/?nucrss=1 The law school blog and podcast from Canada Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: shirley pierce http://lawiscool.com/2009/12/10/pay-equity-did-the-ignatieff-liberals-vote-against-a-basic-human-right/comment-page-1/#comment-8927 shirley pierce Sun, 06 Jun 2010 01:59:08 +0000 http://lawiscool.com/?p=2315#comment-8927 anyone with the same experience, expertice, level of education, and reputation as an emoloyee should enjoy similar benefits. In some situations the wage inequities are so severe that some groups enjoy high levels of rewards and retire with sufficient income and others are having difficulty to eating food and living indoors. Many have to work several jobs to amke ends meet. The Alberta Government will not enact pay equity legislation because they are the worst offender. The lowest paid educated workers in Alberta provide human services through private sector business and non profit agencies contracted by the government. The government controls the wages without thought to providinging a living wage. The vast majority of them are women and minorities and they are sliding into poverty at an alarming rate. Many are due to retire in the next decade with no financial resources beyond CPP for low income earners. What kind of a society will all their mothers, sisters and daughters to live in poverty while millionaires become billionaires. What kind of society enjoys the good life on the backs of the poor. anyone with the same experience, expertice, level of education, and reputation as an emoloyee should enjoy similar benefits. In some situations the wage inequities are so severe that some groups enjoy high levels of rewards and retire with sufficient income and others are having difficulty to eating food and living indoors. Many have to work several jobs to amke ends meet. The Alberta Government will not enact pay equity legislation because they are the worst offender. The lowest paid educated workers in Alberta provide human services through private sector business and non profit agencies contracted by the government. The government controls the wages without thought to providinging a living wage. The vast majority of them are women and minorities and they are sliding into poverty at an alarming rate. Many are due to retire in the next decade with no financial resources beyond CPP for low income earners. What kind of a society will all their mothers, sisters and daughters to live in poverty while millionaires become billionaires. What kind of society enjoys the good life on the backs of the poor.

]]> By: JamesHalifax http://lawiscool.com/2009/12/10/pay-equity-did-the-ignatieff-liberals-vote-against-a-basic-human-right/comment-page-1/#comment-7738 JamesHalifax Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:55:52 +0000 http://lawiscool.com/?p=2315#comment-7738 Pay Equity is an unworkable Farce. Instead of trying to determine if a female receptionist is worth as much as a construction worker, we should try to ensure that a female construction worker makes as much as her male counterparts. That is true fairness. Anything else, is simply ideological bull-it. Equal Pay....for Equal Work. That's fairness in its purest form. And by the way....that is the most common trend in any event....regardless of any NDP ideologies, or the Liberals for that matter. (Of course, only the NDP actually believe in the stuff) Pay Equity is an unworkable Farce. Instead of trying to determine if a female receptionist is worth as much as a construction worker, we should try to ensure that a female construction worker makes as much as her male counterparts. That is true fairness. Anything else, is simply ideological bull-it.

Equal Pay….for Equal Work. That’s fairness in its purest form. And by the way….that is the most common trend in any event….regardless of any NDP ideologies, or the Liberals for that matter. (Of course, only the NDP actually believe in the stuff)

]]> By: Annon http://lawiscool.com/2009/12/10/pay-equity-did-the-ignatieff-liberals-vote-against-a-basic-human-right/comment-page-1/#comment-7707 Annon Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:54:49 +0000 http://lawiscool.com/?p=2315#comment-7707 Oh no. Economic human rights. Communism, here we come! There is no such as an economic human right, the world owes people no such thing. Money is something people make using their skills and knowledge, and some people have more of it than others. It is not the job of the government to tell employers how much their employees should be paid. If employees are unhappy, they can use the bargaining process (collective or otherwise) or else seek a job elsewhere if they can do better. BTW, this doesn't mean I disagree with pay equity, I just disagree with it being called a "human right". Let's not bring economics into the realm of such truly fundamental rights as the right to life, right not to be enslaved, etc. Good try at plugging the NDP though. Oh no. Economic human rights. Communism, here we come!

There is no such as an economic human right, the world owes people no such thing. Money is something people make using their skills and knowledge, and some people have more of it than others. It is not the job of the government to tell employers how much their employees should be paid. If employees are unhappy, they can use the bargaining process (collective or otherwise) or else seek a job elsewhere if they can do better.

BTW, this doesn’t mean I disagree with pay equity, I just disagree with it being called a “human right”. Let’s not bring economics into the realm of such truly fundamental rights as the right to life, right not to be enslaved, etc.

Good try at plugging the NDP though.

]]> By: KC http://lawiscool.com/2009/12/10/pay-equity-did-the-ignatieff-liberals-vote-against-a-basic-human-right/comment-page-1/#comment-7684 KC Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:43:50 +0000 http://lawiscool.com/?p=2315#comment-7684 Wow... doublespeak from a politician? Im shocked. Wow… doublespeak from a politician? Im shocked.

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