Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Connections Post 2

I have been able to relate to some of the labor laws, most importantly being the Eual Pay Act of 1963. I am a woman who works full time and has quite a bit of banking experience and I had a coworker who was a male with not much experience to speak of. He transferred to another branch within the same company with the same title, but was given a $1.50 raise. This is very interesting to me. Given that different areas of the country hive a higher cost of living while other areas have a lower cost, the work should match the cost of living. Though I feel that companies can always find a way around the labor laws, that is if they would want to. To keep this male employee happy, they transferred him so he could get his pay raise. In chapter 9 we learned about what is leagal and what is illegal when it comes to the work place, this incident seems to be entirely leagal.

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