Back in 2008, around this time, employment-law blogger Daniel Schwartz at the Connecticut Employment Law Blog rounded up some other bloggers to pose hypothetical debate questions to the ’08 candidates for President and Vice President.
Four years later, Dan has resurrected this successful series and asked yours truly to join in. Today, the question goes to President Obama:
Protection of women’s rights in the workplace seems to have been a priority for you since taking office. In 2009, you signed the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which effects the statute of limitations for filing an equal-pay lawsuit, into law. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, signed into law in 2010, includes workplace breastfeeding protections.
Should you win reelection, what further changes would you make to workplace laws?
To see what my fellow bloggers would ask President Obama, check out:
- Donna Ballman – Screw You Guys I’m Going Home
- Jon Hyman – Ohio Employer’s Law Blog
- Daniel Schwartz – Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- Robin Shea – Employment and Labor Insider
What would you ask President Obama at the ’12 debates? Let me know in the comments below. And be sure to come back tomorrow for a question to Mitt Romney.