So Democrats plan to draft a bill soon that would take a closer look at wage discrimination in the United States.

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The wage gap is now so firmly established, professional firms and American businesses, are rightly concerned about wage discrimination litigation.

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Aimed at eliminating wage discrimination based on gender, it captured only 58 votes (all Democratic) when 60 were needed to bring it to the Senate floor for consideration.

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It's wage discrimination legislation.

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Paskoff is president and chief executive officer of Atlanta-based ELI, which provides harassment, discrimination, ethics and wage and hour compliance learning solutions.

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We have an abundance of laws on discrimination, hiring, union rules, minimum wage laws, and now health care which penalize and put a real and potential cost on every new hire.

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The employer may agree that some of the settlement is pay for discrimination, emotional distress, or other non-wage income.

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The wage gap seems largely due to differences in company type and partially due to remaining discrimination.

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The researchers conclude this wage gap results from a combination of women choosing lower-paying fields, lingering gender discrimination and differences in salary negotiations.

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