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Positions and the market, and in fact the union has itself based its requests of raises on the market so what the union is effectively saying you can look at the market if it produces a wage increase, but if it doesnt then we dont look at the market. That runs counter to what they agreed to in negotiations. Its certainly not consistent and not with our obligations under the charter. With your permission i would like to touch on a couple other points. Please continue. If i drink water is that like the republican okay. Sorry. I wanted to in view of time i know there is plenty of people that woul...

Comparable education and experience. The context at the time there was a Supreme Court case and they ruled title seven covers wage discrimination whether or not the jobs are exactly the same or not, so it was considered a landmark decision. However, in the application of this court case since 1981 there has been a narrowing of the application. A lot of cases have used the bennett amendment to justify pay differentials based on gender, and actually in fact there have been few successful cases of comparable worth violations. The seiu City Committee on comparable worth was convened in 1981 as was...

Has raised as you know, i have a copy of the contract language. Can you put that up . Sorry just before to finish up. I just want to say that the topic of the hearing i completely agree and want to thank supervisor avalos for calling it and i fully support obviously pay equity and comparable worth. The line of question there is if were making sure were at market we want to understand the implications of how that affects our gender or ethic classes of our employees but i want to get a sense of where we are generically as a market and Budget Committee Going Forward and if at market or below and ...

To follow the standard in the charter and also in the labor contract which does not speak to comparable worth t speaks to cost of living, recruitment and retention, difficult of filling positions and the market, and in fact the union has itself based its requests of raises on the market so what the union is effectively saying you can look at the market if it produces a wage increase, but if it doesnt then we dont look at the market. That runs counter to what they agreed to in negotiations. Its certainly not consistent and not with our obligations under the charter. With your permission i would...

Began in 1942 in terms of general order 16 issued by the labor board. Basically the federal government decided to adjust wages for women to equal men doing work of comparable work and quality. You can imagine when the men were at war the women were doing the work. The order remedied was a job assessment to determine the value of the work so thats really the origin of the discussion. In 1955 the u. S. Census bureau reported that women earned 64 of what men earned. In 1963 there was a federal equal pay act that was introduced that mandated equal pay with the following important exceptions. Under...