8Sponsored by: Commissioners Harris & Edmond
RESOLUTION NO.
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3 A Resolution supporting equal pay protections and directing the
4 City Manager to implement equal pay policies and procedures.
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6 WHEREAS, a woman in 1963 was paid on average only 59 cents for each dollar paid to
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9 WHEREAS, in 1963, Congress passed and President Kennedy signed the landmark
10 Equal Pay Act of 1963 (29 U.S.C. 201 note; Public Law 88-38) (referred to in this
11 preamble as the "Equal Pay Act"), unequivocally affirming that women deserve equal pay
12 for equal work; and
13 WHEREAS, the enactment of the Equal Pay Act laid the groundwork for title VII
14 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000e et seq.) and title IX, which together
15 vastly expanded opportunities for girls and women at school and work; and
16 WHEREAS, those pay disparities exist in both the private and the public sectors and the
17 pay disparities in many cases may be due to continued intentional discrimination or the lingering
18 effects of past discrimination; and
19 WHEREAS, unequal pay, hiring and promotion on the basis of gender tell
20 women and girls that the hard work of the women or girls is not valued equally to that of
21 male counterparts; and
22 WHEREAS, unequal pay, hiring and promotion on the basis of gender violate generally
23 held beliefs regarding equality and fundamental fairness; and
24 WHEREAS, the material wage gap equals approximately $10,762 less per year m
25 median earnings for women and their families compared to men; and
26 WHEREAS, compared to the earnings of White, non-Hispanic men, women on average
27 face a lifetime wage gap of $430,480, African-American women on average face a lifetime wage
28 gap of $877,480 and Latinas on average face a lifetime wage gap of $1 ,007,080; and
29 WHEREAS, the City of South Miami has made significant commitment to implement
30 practices ensuring gender wage equality by establishing a formal and structured pay plan; and
31 WHEREAS, society still frequently associates certain careers paths and jobs with one
32 gender due to traditional gender biases; and
33 WHEREAS, women are 50% more likely to work in the public sector; and
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35 WHEREAS, unequal pay and hiring practices on the basis of gender threaten the
1 economic security of women and their families while the women are in the workforce and
2 the retirement security of women after the women have left the workforce; and
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4 WHEREAS, in 2010, there were approximately 66 million women in the labor force -
5 73 percent of the employed women worked in full-time jobs, while 27 percent worked on a part-
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8 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY
9 COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF SOUTH MIAMI, FLORIDA THAT:
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11 Section 1. The City Manager is instructed to continue to develop and enforce
12 internal policies and procedures to avoid systemic gender pay inequality and continue to
13 draft a position statement to be included in job po stings and advertisements and
14 recruitment materials regarding gender neutral efforts in recruitment, hiring and
15 promotional practices.
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17 Section 2. The City of South Miami supports an end to pay discrimination based
18 on gender and the strengthening of equal pay protections.
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20 Section 3. Severability. If any section clause, sentence, or phrase of this resolution is for
21 any reason held invalid or unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, the holding shall
22 not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this resolution.
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24 Section 4. Effective Date. This resolution shall become effective immediately upon
25 adoption by vote of the City Commission.
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PASSED AND ADOPTED this _ day of _____ , 2017.
ATTEST:
CITY CLERK
READ AND APPROVED AS TO FORM:
LANGUAGE, LEGALITY AND
EXECUTION THEREOF
. APPROVED:
MAYOR
COMMISSION VOTE:
Mayor Stoddard:
Vice Mayor Welsh:
Commissioner Edmond:
38 Commissioner Liebman:
39 Commissioner Harris:
40 CITY ATTORNEY
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