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Including Inglewood Airport Area • Baldwin Hills • Crenshaw/LA • Ladera Heights VOL. 24, No. 41
October 8, 2015
New Pay Equity Law Considered Toughest in the Nation
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ov. Jerry Brown took the pay equity fight to another level on Tuesday by signing one of the toughest laws in the nation. The new law not only shrinks the wage gap between men and women in the state but extends its reach across titles and geographic locations within the same company.
Area city of Richmond. California and the federal government already have laws banning employers from paying women less than men for the same jobs. Courts have interpreted current law to mean that male and female workers must hold exactly the same jobs to require equal pay, said state Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson
Sen. Hanna-Beth Jackson, author of the legislation Women in California cur- (D-Santa Barbara), author of rently average a median 84 the legislation. cents for every dollar that men But, now, the new Caliearn, according to a U.S Cen- fornia Fair Pay Act will give sus Bureau report this year. employees more grounds for “The inequities that have challenging perceived wage plagued our state and have discrimination based on genburdened women forever der. New language says emare slowly being resolved ployers cannot earn less than with this kind of bill,” those of the opposite sex for Brown said at a ceremony “substantially similar work,” at Rosie the Riveter Nation- even if their titles are different al Historical Park in the Bay or they work at different sites.
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lear skies, music, and the former Wal-Mart parking lot created the perfect ambiance to house an array of local vendors for the City’s annual Yard Sale event this past Saturday. There was literally something for everybody, TV’s, computers, tiny motorcycles, tons of clothes, art, antiques, collectibles, you name it, somebody had it, (Continued on page 10)
ho knew? For decades, it has been reported that the Hispanic population will be dominant within the U.S. by 2050. Now, according to a new study of census data, Asians are likely to surpass Latinos as the nation’s largest immigrant group. The population surge is predicted shortly after the middle of the century, within just a few years of Hispanics becoming the number one group in size. Researchers say the wave of new arrivals from Latin America has slowed, but trans-Pacific migration continues to expand.
California Governor Jerry Brown The Act also prohibits re- cates, said women, espetaliation against employees cially those of color and who ask about or discuss mothers, “continue to lose wages paid to co-workers, precious income to a perand it clarifies their ability vasive, gender-based wage to claim retaliation. Em- gap.” ployers sued by workers Brown’s signature on would have to show that Jackson’s bill “will make wage differences are due to California’s equal pay law factors other than gender, clearer, stronger and more such as merit or seniority; effective,” she said. that they are job-related and The new rules take effect reasonable. Jan. 1. The new law is the stronThe law is supported by gest in the country, accord- the California Chamber of ing to the National Partner- Commerce and most state ship for Women & Families, Republican lawmakers. Naa Washington-based non- tional women’s rights leadprofit advocacy group for ers said the legislation was workplace fairness. a model for other states and According to the study Jennifer Reisch, legal di- for Congress, where similar rector of the San Francisco efforts have been stalled by by the Pew Research Center, which has tracked the group Equal Rights Advo- Republican oposition. effects of immigration on the country’s population for the last several decades, immigrants are likely to make By Thomas Bunn up 88% of the country’s population growth over the next 50 years, The foreignborn, who made up just 5% of the nation’s population in 1965, make up 14% today, the study found. They are projected to be 18% of the population by 2065. Going by these numbers, Hispanics are expected to be the most populous group in the U.S. for just 15 years before being outnumbered Mayor Butts and Inglewood residents. By Thomas Bunn (Continued on page 8)
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Asians to Surpass Latino Population
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