The White House Trashed The Equal Pay Rule With Ivankas Approval

The White House Trashed The Equal Pay Rule With Ivankas Approval On Tuesday (August 29), the White House put an end to a planned Obama-era initiative that would have mandated companies to disclose workers pay alongside their race, ethnicity, and gender. And self-proclaimed equal pay advocate Ivanka Trump wants you to know that the rules shelving has her full approval.Known as Obamas Equal Pay Rule, the initiative was introduced in January 2016 and would have required all employers with 100 workers or more to provide data about wages. It was a move designed to bolster transparency and expose pay discrimination, and it would have covered about 63 1000000 workers. But in a statement obtained by the Wall Street Journal, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Administrator Neomi Rao called the rule enormously burdensome.Among other things, (were) concerned that some aspects of the revised collection of information lack practical utility, are unnecessarily burdensome, and do notlage adequately address privacy and confidentiality issues, Rao wrote. We dont believe it would actually help us gather information about wage and employment discrimination.And, despite her attempts to position herself as a proponent of workers rights and equal pay regardless of gender, the First Daughter supported Raos stance.Ultimately, while I believe the intention was good and agree that pay transparency is important, the proposed policy would not yield the intended results, Ms. Trump told the Wall Street Journal. We look forward to continuing to work with EEOC, OMB, Congress and all relevant stakeholders on robust policies aimed at eliminating the gender wage gap.This leaves us to wonder if mandating companies disclosure of workers wage data wouldnt lead to greater pay transparency, what does Trump think would? As far as those burdensome claims go, such a rule would simply have involved reporting additional data on the EEO-1 form that employers are already required to submit yearl y. This decades-old form is used to collect intel on the racial and gender composition of Americas workforce adding wage data to it could have worked wonders in exposing discriminatory pay practices.Clearly, the motivation here in discarding the Equal Pay Rule is to protect corporations not the discriminated-against workers Trump has repeatedly tried to cast herself as champion of.