Post by Logan on Jun 29, 2016 2:43:46 GMT -6
Teen’s wage disparity at KCK pizza shop fires up equal-pay debate — and Hillary Clinton
It’s not every day that a teenager gets a shoutout on Twitter from Hillary Clinton.
A lot of national attention has found 17-year-old Jensen Walcott of Bonner Springs since she was let go from her pizza place job an hour after she was hired.
A manager of Pizza Studio at the Legends fired her after Walcott compared her salary to that of her male friend and discovered that she was making $8 an hour — 25 cents less per hour than what he was making for doing the same job with the same amount of work experience.
When Walcott called the shop back to ask about the discrepancy, she got canned because, the manager told her, discussing wages is against company policy.
Read more here: www.kansascity.com/news/local/article86226237.html
It’s not every day that a teenager gets a shoutout on Twitter from Hillary Clinton.
A lot of national attention has found 17-year-old Jensen Walcott of Bonner Springs since she was let go from her pizza place job an hour after she was hired.
A manager of Pizza Studio at the Legends fired her after Walcott compared her salary to that of her male friend and discovered that she was making $8 an hour — 25 cents less per hour than what he was making for doing the same job with the same amount of work experience.
When Walcott called the shop back to ask about the discrepancy, she got canned because, the manager told her, discussing wages is against company policy.
Read more here: www.kansascity.com/news/local/article86226237.html