Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, signed into law an equal pay bill on Wednesday that would allow anyone who merely thinks they are being paid less due to their gender to sue their employer.
The bill, deceptively titled the “Equal Pay For Equal Work Act,” starts with the assumption that differences between what the average man and average woman earn in a year is due to pay discrimination between two people doing the exact same job. This misconception was spread by Colorado House Democrats in a press release praising the bill:
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