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State Democrats Try Again for Gender Pay Gap Hotline

Janine
JO INGLES
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OPR
Rep. Janine Boyd (at podium) touted a similar bill in last year's state congressional session that failed to pass.

There’s a bill in the legislature that’s meant to provide to report those situations.

Some House Democrats are pushing a bill that would establish a telephone hotline within the state’s civil rights department where cases of pay inequity could be reported. says it would not only serve as a place to report incidences of unequal pay but would also help the state collect data.

“An equal pay hotline in Ohio would strengthen our work force and make sure employers could not deny anyone pay by manipulating the rules.”

This isn’t the first time for this bill. . And just like the previous bill, it doesn’t have any Republican sponsors.

It would need GOP support to gain traction in this Republican-dominated legislature.

Jo Ingles is a professional journalist who covers politics and Ohio government for the Ohio Public Radio and Television for the Ohio Public Radio and Television Statehouse News Bureau. She reports on issues of importance to Ohioans including education, legislation, politics, and life and death issues such as capital punishment. Jo started her career in Louisville, Kentucky in the mid 80’s when she helped produce a televised presidential debate for ABC News, worked for a creative services company and served as a general assignment report for a commercial radio station. In 1989, she returned back to her native Ohio to work at the WOSU Stations in Columbus where she began a long resume in public radio.