SlowpokeBlog

...as I did yesterday, the man just authored one doozy of a Supreme Court opinion on pay discrimination. In short, you'll have 180 days from the set date of your salary to ferret out whether you're being screwed and make any claim of discrimination. As usual, Ginsburg states what should be obvious to anyone sitting on the SCOTUS:

In a vigorous dissenting opinion that she read from the bench, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the majority opinion “overlooks common characteristics of pay discrimination.” She said that given the secrecy in most workplaces about salaries, many employees would have no idea within 180 days that they had received a lower raise than others.

An initial disparity, even if known to the employee, might be small, Justice Ginsburg said, leading an employee, particularly a woman or a member of a minority group “trying to succeed in a nontraditional environment” to avoid “making waves.” Justice Ginsburg noted that even a small differential “will expand exponentially over an employee’s working life if raises are set as a percentage of prior pay.”

I will state again that the Dems' unwillingness to try to stop Alito from joining the highest court in the land was their worst crumble to date.