NOW President: Employers Enjoy 'Unfair Advantage' Because Workers Reveal Selves On Facebook --We're ALL victims

Jack Coleman, Apr. 13, 2014, Newsbusters.org

When it comes to a manufactured issue such as unequal pay between men and women, a disparity that exists only in the aggregate and evaporates among individuals, you can expect to hear a fair number of suspect claims.

But an assertion made by National Organization for Women president Terry O'Neill while a guest on Ed Schultz's radio show last week, talking about the proposed Paycheck Fairness Act, went beyond suspicious toward something more closely resembling the inane. (Audio) --

SCHULTZ: Lamar Alexander, senator from Tennessee, the conservative position is, is that he thinks that this is going to result in more lawsuits, he thinks that this, basically, the free market is going to take care of all of this, that it would end up getting government involvement into the business world. What's your response to that? Especially the fact the lawsuit end of it, what about that? I mean, it would seem to me that it would reduce lawsuits.

O'NEILL: Well, I think over time it should reduce lawsuits but let's be clear, we do not have a free market today and the labor market is not free and a major reason why it's not free is the employers have an unfair advantage. They have transparency. They know everything they need to know about their employees, all they have to do is go on Facebook. They've got, I mean, you've got, you've got serious non-transparency issues (chuckles as lunacy of what she just said sinks in) that are only going to get worse in the age of technological information, right? But what do employees really know about their employers? Very little. It is a black box. We don't know, employees generally don't know the reasoning that goes behind the wage rates that are set by the employer. And if you don't have equal knowledge on two sides of a transaction, you don't have a free market. So anybody talking about a free market, they need to be honest and say a free market actually is one in which the employees have as much knowledge as the employer, right? So, so what you need to create a free market are policies, rules, the employer has to be transparent, just like the employee is transparent. Once you get those rules in place, and enforced, then you start seeing the free market operate correctly. And frankly, I think in the short run there will be more lawsuits and there should be.

Read the full story:  www.newsbusters.org

Follow Larry Elder on Twitter

"Like" Larry Elder on Facebook