Re: “Pay transparency lawsuits spark accusations of ‘cottage industry’ ” (Feb. 23, A1):
I disagree that pay transparency lawsuits are a problem in want of correction.
So, poor companies are being instructed to pay penalties once they break the regulation and don’t listing wages on job postings. These listings are designed to finish wage gaps which have traditionally hit girls and folks of coloration.
We don’t want the Supreme Courtroom nor the Legislature to water down this regulation to ease the struggling of succesful companies which are flouting the regulation. If given 14-day intervals to appropriate, these perfidious few can openly proceed to take care of the wage hole and fill from candidates throughout that interval or cancel and reprint a brand new advert shortly afterward.
The answer to stopping these complaints is to cease breaking the regulation.
Think about if we had been to permit different kinds of lawbreakers 14 days to make an apology as an alternative of meting out the punishment on the time of the infraction.
We’d certainly not have the steep nosedive in noncompliance on this subject because the article reviews as an alternative of the continuation it additionally reviews being seen in states the place penalties will not be shortly out there.
Melissa Hyatt, Seattle
