Biden signs order to promote pay equality for employees of federal contractors

President Joe Biden Tuesday signed an government order to advertise efforts to realize pay equality and pay fairness for workers of federal contractors. 

The order encourages the federal government to contemplate banning federal contractors from in search of details about job candidates’ prior wage historical past, the Related Press reported.

Biden was joined by first woman Jill Biden on the East Room of the White Home round 5:45 p.m. Tuesday for an occasion marking Nationwide Equal Pay Day and to have fun Ladies’s Historical past Month. Vice President Kamala Harris selected to not attend as a result of her husband, Douglas Emhoff, contracted COVID-19 just lately, Biden stated. 

Biden stated his administration is increasing entry to good-paying jobs and offering decrease prices for baby care and senior care, so girls can get again to work and supply their households with financial safety.

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 “It is my hope that this units an instance for all personal firms,” Biden stated in his speech on the White Home. 

A brand new directive from the Division of Labor is designed to strengthen federal contractors’ obligations to audit payrolls to protect towards pay disparities primarily based on gender, race or ethnicity.

Equal Pay Day is designed to spotlight how far into a brand new 12 months a girl should work, on common, to earn what a person did within the earlier 12 months.

Biden known as to the stage previous and current members of the U.S. girls’s nationwide soccer, which reached a $24 million February settlement with U.S. Soccer in a discrimination dispute. 

First Girl Jill Biden provides a speech on the White Home on Tuesday
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First woman Jill Biden additionally spoke on the occasion Tuesday, which she stated was crammed with girls who “blazed trails and shattered glass ceilings.”

Jill Biden talked of her mom who offered for her household within the suburbs of Philadelphia. She stated she now misses having the ability to hear her mother’s voice letting her know all the things was OK.

“We’re all right here at this time as a result of somebody believed in us,” Jill Biden stated. 

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Earlier within the day, Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., commented on new Division of Labor information Tuesday displaying the wage hole.

In 2020, girls earned 83 cents for each greenback earned by males. The hole is especially stark for Hispanic girls (57 cents) and Black girls (64 cents) when evaluating their wages to White, non-Hispanic males.

“These statistics are staggering,” Pelosi stated on the occasion. “They don’t seem to be solely staggering, they’re heartbreaking.”

Through the coronavirus pandemic, girls misplaced 11.9 million jobs in comparison with 10.1 million jobs misplaced by males from February to April 2020.

Fox Information’ Marisa Schultz and the Related Press contributed to this report