U.S. Chamber of Commerce Testifies Before Senate HELP Committee on Paycheck Fairness Act

Earlier this week, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) held an important full committee hearing on The Paycheck Fairness Act (S. 84), which would expand the scope of the Equal Pay Act in an effort to resolve alleged pay disparities between men and women. Seyfarth’s Camille Olson testified at the hearing on behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, where she serves as Chairwoman of its policy advisory committee on equal employment opportunity. Olson appeared on a panel of Senate witnesses which included professor Deborah Thompson Eisenberg from the University of Maryland’s Francis King Carey School of Law; ReShonda Young, a small business owner and manager from Iowa; and Kerri Sleeman, a mechanical engineer from Michigan.

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