Title IX For Government Pay
The British government has apparently adopted something like Title IX for government pay, and just as Title IX predictably caused many mens sports to be canceled, the results are about what you would predict (via overlawyered):
Hundreds of thousands of men working in the the public sector are facing
salary cuts of up to £15,000 a year as equal pay agreements take effect, The
Times has learnt.Compensation claims for up to 1.5 million workers could cost the taxpayer more
than £10 billion and mean that male staff lose up to 40 per cent of their
salary.
LOL - who would have thought that the government would make everything equal by tearing down the top rather than building up the bottom? Uh, well I did, just three posts ago. I would love to see the list of what jobs were deemed "equivalent" by the "experts". I wouldn't even know how to start such an analysis if someone paid me to do it, except maybe just to go find the market pay rate for each job. But of course the market is excluded as a determinant of value by folks who write these laws, even though we use it for determining the value of, well, everything. Even when the government tries to set values (e.g. by fixing prices), a black market always emerges trading at a more rational market price.
Prediction: the next story we see will be about "labor shortages" and the government having difficulty trying to hire certain positions.
