U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
PRESS RELEASE
3-11-10
Cites Persistent Gender-Based Wage Discrimination, Highlights Obama Administration Equal Pay Task Force
WASHINGTON – Stuart J. Ishimaru, Acting Chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), testified this morning before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in favor of the Paycheck Fairness Act. Attached is a text of his prepared remarks.
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