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State Control Of Great Lakes Water Diversion, J. David Prince
State Control Of Great Lakes Water Diversion, J. David Prince
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This article focuses on the law relevant to the issue of interbasin diversion of Great Lakes water, the policies reflected in that law, and the limitations of the law on such diversions and on the ability of the Great Lakes states to control proposed diversions. It concludes with an argument for regional as opposed to national or state-by-state decision making on the issue of diversions and a suggested mechanism for facilitating such regional decision making.
Comparable Worth In Arbitration, Christine D. Ver Ploeg
Comparable Worth In Arbitration, Christine D. Ver Ploeg
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In 1992 Minnesota became a pioneer in the arena of equal pay for equal work by enacting the Minnesota Local Government Pay Equity Act/Comparable Worth Law (“CWL”), which allocated nearly $22 million to remedy wage disparities between female dominated and male dominated classes at the state level. Each local government had to determine a new pay level for public employees taking into account whether it was a male or female dominated field. Many of these determinations were challenged by unions basing their challenges on two primary themes: (1) the methodologies used were flawed; (2) the determinations were invalid because the …