01/11/1994 09:00 AM Senate CRA

 Number 474                                                                    
                                                                               
 SENATOR RANDY PHILLIPS stated that the committee would now take up            
  SB 2  PAY EQUITY BASED ON VALUE OF WORK.                                     
                                                                               
                                                                               
 Number 449                                                                    
                                                                               
 PATRICIA JONES states for the record that she is a female employee            
 of the State of Alaska and a member of ASEA.  She then reads from             
 a letter from Joseph Wilkie.  She comments that surveys pertinent             
 to this legislation deal with discrimination between job classes,             
 not within job classes.  She is opposed to correcting the problem             
 by implementing a quota system to hire females into male-dominated            
 job classes, and notes that this would not be a valid option at any           
 rate, since it is illegal.  Ms. Jones believes that surveys should            
 be conducted for all state job classifications, and that                      
 corrections be made where pay inequities exist.                               
                                                                               
 Number 433                                                                    
                                                                               
 SENATOR RANDY PHILLIPS thanks Ms. Jones for her testimony and calls           
 the next witness.                                                             
                                                                               
 Number 432                                                                    
                                                                               
 JENNIE DAY PETERSON, ASEA, announces that she will waive her                  
 testimony in deference to Pat Jones's testimony due to time                   
 constraints.                                                                  
                                                                               
 Number 430                                                                    
                                                                               
 SHERRY GOLL, Alaska Women's Lobby, states that the lobby supports             
 SB 2.  She believes at least half the pay difference is due to                
 inequity and leads to hardships for women.                                    
                                                                               
 Number 408                                                                    
                                                                               
 SENATOR RANDY PHILLIPS announces that SB 2 will be scheduled again            
 due to time constraints.