Chris Christie Vetoes Equal Pay Bill, Calling It ‘Business Unfriendly’

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2016/05/03/3774752/christie-veto-equal-pay/
"New Jersey’s lawmakers want to require employers to pay women the same as men for essentially the same work. But Gov. Chris Christie (R) thinks they went too far. The bill that passed both chambers of the state’s legislature would have banned employers from paying women less for “substantially similar” work as men, and would only have allowed differing pay rates between genders if employers could prove it was based on something besides sex, such as education, experience, or performance. The similarity of the work would have been determined based on the required responsibilities, effort, and skills for jobs across all of an employer’s operations."