SB399 Alabama 2019 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Vivian Davis Figures Senator

Democrat

Session

Regular Session 2019

Title

Discrimination in wages, prohib. employer from paying employees of another sex or race for equal work less wage rates, except pursuant to seniority system, a merit system, and system that measures earnings by quantity or quality of production

Description

Existing federal law prohibits sex-based wage discrimination between men and women in the same establishment who perform jobs that require substantially equal skill, effort, and responsibility under similar working conditions.

This bill would prohibit an employer from paying any of its employees at wage rates less than those paid to employees of another sex or race for equal work when viewed as a composite of skill, effort, and responsibility, as specified, except where the payment is made pursuant to a seniority system, a merit system, a system that measures earnings by quantity or quality of production, or a differential based on any other factor other than sex.

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Subjects

Business and Labor