The Paycheck Fairness Act

This is an act that is stated to collect the sex, race and national origin of employees working in the US to ensure 'fairness' in the paycheck. S182 is suppose to make pay equality for women better...on the initial glance this sounds great. But on second look, it stinks of a government control of business. It is currently "ILLEGAL", may I stress that again...."ILLEGAL" to ask the national origin of an individual - period. Check out Title VII. All that is required is that an individual is a US citizen or legal alien/resident. Race and Sex can requested only after hiring for use in the company's affirmative action programs, and the employee is entitled to deny and request that this information is not shared with any outside agency since it is voluntary. In fact many of the forms I signed in the business world states just that, "This information will not be shared to third parties". I refused to participate in many of these info gathering items in my company because after they took into account my age, sex, race and department all information gathered about my opinions led directly to me since I was the only one in my department matching the information requested.

This act does not seem to take into account that many businesses give woman maternity leave compensation which men do not receive. This would have to be added into the quotient, or the data for pay would be null & void. I would hope it would take into account identical positions and length of time in the company for pay purposes, education et al...but again, it comes down to this -that this information is not the government's business and to order a business to provide this information to the government - unless they are seeking a gov't minority owner contract with the government IMHO is illegal and unethical. I don't know...seems like the government's main purpose is suppose to be protection of our country and it's interests...not telling businesses, who they can hire and what they have to pay as long as it is minimum wage.