The issue is pay equity, and the state Assembly wants to assure women and minorities get equal pay for equal work. I have been at the forefront of this fight by supporting legislation that ensures pay differentiation is not based on a person’s gender or national origin.

Discrimination in any form has no place in the workplace!

According to the National Committee on Pay Equity, the median earnings of full-time female employees are 77 percent of their male colleagues. The statistics are even more alarming for African-American women, whose earnings are as low as 68 percent of men.

That is unacceptable!

I support passage of an Assembly bill, appropriately called the New York State Fair Pay Act, that would help bring pay equity to the workplace. The fact is, from the moment a woman enters the work force until her retirement and beyond, economic discrimination impacts her life and the lives of those around her. That’s why I will continue the fight to further protect people from pay discrimination.

For more information about pay equity and equal opportunity in the workplace, e-mail me at mckevit@assembly.state.ny.us, write me at 224 Seventh Street, Suite 200, Garden City, NY 11530 or call me at 739-5119.