Natalie Robinson: Pay transparency laws hurt small businesses
While well-intentioned, pay transparency laws do little to address any perceived pay gap.
This month, columnists debate increasingly popular pay transparency laws and whether businesses should be required to post salaries in job ads. Plus, columnists weigh in on protests on college campuses across the country, on the city’s handling of an MLS bid, and Dr. Richard Feldman warns that while COVID has become less of a threat for the majority, it’s still very dangerous for some.
While well-intentioned, pay transparency laws do little to address any perceived pay gap.
Pay transparency is the perfect example of legislation that interjects itself into a business’s hiring process.
One of the best ways to earn a higher salary is typically by switching companies, rather than being promoted internally.
By focusing on solutions to improve our K-12 education system, improving rural health care, and lowering health care costs, we can make rural Indiana better than it’s ever been.
There’s only one person in this race with a record of working to boost rural Indiana’s economy—with unprecedented results.
We need greater collaboration between not-for-profits and philanthropic funders and between government and for-profit businesses.
Many development officers who work for Muslim charitable institutions might not see their families the entire month of Ramadan.
The way all of this has unfolded feels sudden, secretive and un-Hoosier-like.
Remember that COVID is an unusual virus that causes ‘long COVID,’ especially in the unvaccinated or in those with repeated infections.
Part of the reason I enjoy being a member of Gen X is our attitude and adaptability.
It is offered in the spirit of sparking a conversation about how we can tap into the latent talent and capacity of our neglected faith communities.
Hayek used the Nobel platform to take a shot across the bow of the profession and against scientism broadly.
What the governor did was both premeditated and intentional. And unnecessary.
The Republican showed no contempt toward the Democrat. And vice versa.
Most people don’t truly understand that everything we do in life is based on policy.
Life knocks you down, sometimes repeatedly.
At a mere 22 years old, Clark exudes the characteristics people early in their adult lives ought to adopt.
Each student demonstrator owes it to himself or herself and to society not to allow honest views to be confused with antisemitism or support for violence.
In many instances, militant groups are taking over the protest agenda.
Indiana should consider operating regional career services centers staffed by highly trained career advisers who work in partnership with K-12 schools.
These unfounded allegations undermine the confidence of the public in the judicial system, a bedrock of our democratic society.
Any bulwark, if hit hard enough and often enough will start to weaken.
Indeed, the session proved to be the lightest and most inconsequential in my memory.
In your early days of service, no one expects much out of you.
All of this is a very good thing for democracy, which operates best when it operates in the sunlight.