Walker signs bill barring workers from collecting damages for employment discrimination
April 6, 2012 at 6:43 am in Duluth News Tribune
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill that prohibits workers from collecting damages in employment discrimination cases. Continue Reading
The only people that this helps are employers who have been found guilty of employment discrimination, which is almost impossible to prove. Does anyone doubt that Walker would legalize employment discrimination if he could?
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So they get back pay–what about the pay they lose out on in the job search process, which can last a l-o-n-g time? I do not think this is a fair deal for workers who have already been cheated.
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Lots of luck to you over-50 workers in Wisconsin! Seems Wisconsin is rolling back the progress faster than Wal-Mart can roll back it’s prices.
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Shouldn’t it be left up to the courts to decide if a person should be eligible to collect anything?
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Not in Walkers world. He is judge and jury with THE final say. I can`t believe people are getting so sucked in by this guy. He sending us working class backwards in time to before the 1920s.
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It’s like the episode of the Simpsons where Monty Burns ran for Governor–except it’s real. Taking away punitive damages is going to make it harder for people discriminated against to find attorneys willing to take their cases. Thank goodness MN didn’t get stuck with Tom Emmer!
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Looks like there’s just one more reason I’m glad I don’t live in the totalitarian state of Wisconsin!
Please, please vote this guy out!
I’m pulling for ya!
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Walker is looking more and more like the party that was in charge in Germany in the ’30′s!
God help us all if this guy advances any further than he has!
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I wonder where our regular collection of GOP rhetoric spewers are on this story. Perhaps even they realize this is indefensible?
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It’s hard to believe that so many years of hard work by so many people could be undone so quickly by so few.
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I hope the good people of Wisconsin get rid of this guy and his cronies once and for all! He cares nothing for “the people” only this unrealistic quest for power and tearing down the decades of hard work “the people” have built up for their state, Towns, and themselves. Germany in the 30′s?…..Absolutely!
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No comments of support, but the usual thumbs down?
I wonder why?
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Yeah.
Where’s g.s. and her ‘althouse’ fetish?
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With the comments you post bac, I can understand why you’re afraid to hang out with the smart people at Althouse (plus you get to ignore the fact you may actually learn something)….
This whole synchronized Democrat cry of the Republican “war on women” is just one of the latest strategies to take the light off the economy and deficit. It’s pretty obvious what is going on, and hyperbole suckers in, well…, suckers.
But to the Topic at hand:
Politifact WI ruled on this: “Wisconsin GOP bill would repeal law ensuring pay equity for women, Dem lawmaker says” as MOSTLY FALSE (search for politifact WI to find the site, and then look for this title)
And this blog writer has researched this topic, and I suggest you read his posts and click on links in that post for additional information. Maybe this will bring some thought into all the accusations:
“Wisconsin governor Scott Walker signed a number of bills yesterday, including a bill that repeals a bill passed just three years ago that goes by the name of the “Equal Pay Enforcement Act.” That bill had increased the kinds of damages allowable in employment law cases under Wisconsin state law. Now Wisconsin is back to the employment law regime that it had in place for the sixty-five or so years before 2009. So Walker has sent Wisconsin employment law back to the dark days of the early Obama years…”
http://gillette-torvik.blogspot.com/2012/04/i-am-inclined-to-believe-that-so-called.html
Walker has done more good for the state of WI in difficult economic times by making the hard choices, instead of just digging the (unlawful according to WI Constitution) budget deficit hole deeper. Yes he’s stepped on toes and tarnished golden apples. Life isn’t fair, get over it, get to work.
Have a good day bac,…just happened to see this Topic off to the side so I thought I’d drop by.
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