Mark Takano

I am concerned about the proposal to terminate individual unemployability benefits at age 62 for veterans eligible for social security.

I am disappointed once again, Mr. Chairman, that we have yet to have another hearing on the EEOC without actually inviting a representative from the Commission.

The EEOC's work is still very much needed in our workforce, and we should not seek to hold them back.

When we talk about banning the box, we are not just discussing a policy initiative, we are talking about allowing real men and women a fair shot at a good job and life.

The EEOC's job should be about getting results for America's workers, not providing full employment for law firms looking for new ways to prevent resolution of a disputed discrimination case.

The name of our subcommittee, I want to remind everyone, is Workforce Protections, meaning that we should be doing our best to protect workers.

On average, working women make 83 cents for every dollar that a typical white man makes.

There is so much more work the EEOC needs to do.

Race, gender, disability, and age discrimination still persist today.

It's been more than fifty-years since the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1965 and the creation of the EEOC.

If we do not have accurate data, we will not be able to solve this persistent problem.

Why is the wage gap still an issue for millions of working women in our nation?

There is really so much more work to do at the EEOC.

In that time, the EEOC has been on the forefront of fighting discrimination in the workplace for all people, and its work is needed now more than ever.

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The pretty packaging of this legislation as so-called 'flexibility' for working families should fool no one.

This betrayal of working families has got to stop.

H.R. 1180 is entirely consistent with congressional Republicans' agenda to rig the rules of our economy.

This legislation plays a cruel trick on cash-strapped and time-strapped workers.

Yes, I absolutely believe that for many, many, many workers, the Working Families Flexibility Act would make lives worse. It would give them less control, less wages, and a lot more uncertainty.

So, is this legislation likely to make this problem worse?

For people with family commitments, being forced to stay late at work can mean children do not get picked up from a child care center or met at the bus stop.

So back in the 1970s, 1975, about 60 percent of the workforce that were covered under the salary threshold for being able to earn overtime pay. We're down to 8 percent.

H.R. 1180 gives employers yet another tool to deny workers overtime pay, at the very moment their overtime rights ought to be strengthened.