Re: “Pay transparency lawsuits spark accusations of ‘cottage industry’ ” (Feb. 23, A1):
I disagree that pay transparency lawsuits are an issue in need of correction.
So, poor businesses are being told to pay penalties when they break the law and do not list wages on job postings. These listings are designed to end wage gaps that have historically hit women and people of color.
We do not need the Supreme Court nor the Legislature to water down this law to ease the suffering of capable businesses that are flouting the law. If given 14-day periods to correct, these perfidious few can brazenly continue to maintain the wage gap and fill from applicants during that period or cancel and reprint a new ad shortly afterward.
The solution to stopping these complaints is to stop breaking the law.
Imagine if we were to allow other sorts of lawbreakers 14 days to say sorry instead of meting out the punishment at the time of the infraction.
We would surely not have the steep nosedive in noncompliance on this issue as the article reports instead of the continuation it also reports being seen in states where penalties are not quickly available.
Melissa Hyatt, Seattle