Relief for our fellow americans. Washington journey spent the entire program on the governments role in enforcing laws that make it illegal to harass an individual in the work place. It online h all of at cspan. Org. Heres part of that discussion. Continues. L joining us is the commissioner of the equal Employment Opportunity commission here to help us about our conversation about sexualharassment and the work place. Eeoc and how does this agency play a role in preventing sexual hara the eoc the eeoc was created in the 1964 Civil Rights Act. An independent agency to enforce on discrimination in the workplace based on sex grade one of the prohibited acts is to sexually harass someone. Is takewhat we do charge when someone has experienced harassment, we investigate, we try to settle them. We have helped thousands of women get harassment to stop in their workplace, often getting money damages even before they have to go to court. The other role we have is outreach and education. We are tr
This agency play a role in preventing Sexual Harassment in the workplace . The eeoc was created in the 1964 Civil Rights Act. An independent agency to enforce on discrimination in the workplace based on sex grade one of the prohibited acts is to sexually harass someone. Is takewhat we do charge when someone has experienced harassment, we investigate, we try to settle them. We have helped thousands of women get harassment to stop in their workplace, often getting money damages even before they have to go to court. The other role we have is outreach and education. We are trying to stop harassment before it happens. We do training and other things along those lines. Host what is sexualharassment . How do you define it . Guest there are two definitions. One is illegal Sexual Harassment and that is harassment that is severe, like physical touching, or what is called pervasive, it happens continuously. That is what you need to get to the level of illegal harassment. From the eeoc perspective
Of a sexual nature or of a sexist nature, you should be able to get your employer to stop it. In an ideal world you should really get your employer to stop it. Host we are talking about just the federal workplace the eeoc covers the private workplace as well. Guest yes. We were created to implement the 1964 Civil Rights Act. That was the major Civil Rights Act in this country saying to private employers, any employer with 15 or more employees, you may not discriminate waste on on race,based religion, national origin, sex, disability or age. This is any private employer with more than 15 employees is subject to this law. Has 53c has 50 feet offices around the country ready to help anyone who has experienced discrimination. You go to the website eeoc. Gov, there is an 800 number. We will do everything we can. Host how does a federal agency stop Sexual Harassment in the private work place . Guest the law is set to govern the private workplace and you can bring your employer to court and g
Productive. And that makes total sense. You get more done when you have a new computer than when you have an old clunky one. He produce more when you have a new machine on the line. Workers become more productive and the Companies Pay them more both because they are bringing in more and because they want to keep those workers to do more. Thats what happens when you lift that economic shadow that we talked about. You create more jobs and wage competition grows income. This isnt just economic theory. As you can see here on this chart, wages increase and wage increase is significantly higher in areas with lower tax rates. We need not just economic theory, we need economic results. High tax countries like the United States have weak wage growth of the United States is down here amongst this chart representing the highest statutory corporate rate countries. Hightax countries like the u. S. Have weak wage growth. You can see that here. Lowtax countries, with the lowest tax rates. Low tax rat
Insights, and we cant resist this graphic the title wilfs world was to offset bank stories from me . I dont know. Were rivet by what you may have for us you wait. You really will be big stories. Anyway, we begin with snap falling to the initial Public Offering price, 17. Bob is at snaps close here on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange hello, bob take a look here we bounced two hours ago snap hit 17, right now, 17. 20. Public offering was covered, i was here for that at 17 march 2nd, high as 29 the next day, but started dropping, and when we got its first as a Public Company own may 10th, disappointing user metrics, disappoints growth metrics, stog stocks down here why is that important . Waiting for the tech unicorns to go public, and when you got one of these that is at 17 at its price, thats not a good sign. Thats a value conscious right nowing and with high price tech ipos waiting to go public, thats a problem now, weve had them go before their ipo price before, and you know w