R 122
2001-H 6298
Enacted 4/3/2001


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PROCLAIMING APRIL 3, 2001 AS "RHODE ISLAND PAY EQUITY DAY"

Introduced By:  Representatives Henseler, Giannini, Coderre, Williams and George Date Introduced:  April 3, 2001

WHEREAS, Pay equity would boost pay for women and men in predominately female jobs in Rhode Island; and

WHEREAS, The House of Representatives supports the principle of pay equity for public employees and encourages the Administration to work towards ensuring equal pay among job classes with similar levels of responsibility, knowledge, skill level and effort; and

WHEREAS, The House of Representatives also supports all efforts to attain and implement accurate and unbiased job evaluation systems and pay setting processes to foster equity for all jobs; and

WHEREAS, The House of Representatives also supports the use of unbiased job evaluation systems which evaluates job on gender and race neutral factors to distinguish between legitimate differences in wages and wage differentials which are due to sex and race discrimination and occupational segregation; and

WHEREAS, Most research on the subject has concluded that much of the wage gap is attributed to sex and race based wage discrimination; and

WHEREAS, Fifteen states in the nation have adopted statutes and 24 states have conducted studies and are moving toward pay equity; and

WHEREAS, The National Conference of State Legislatures urges all states to move toward the establishment of equitable compensation relationships between female and race dominated classes and further to establish pay equity through the enforcement of existing laws and the enactment of laws to guarantee equal pay for work of equal value; now, therefore be it

RESOLVED, That this House of Representatives hereby declares April 3, 2001 as "Rhode Island Pay Equity Day" and urges all Rhode Islanders to join in urging all the other states in the nation to move toward the establishment of equitable compensation; and be it further

RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and he is authorized and directed to transmit duly certified copies of this resolution to the Director of the Department of Administration, the Personnel Administrator of the Division of Human Resources, and the co-chairs of the Legislative Commission on Pay Equity.

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