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  6. SB 399

SB 399

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  • 1 Bill Summary
  • 2 Bill Actions
  • 3 Bill Text
  • 4 Bill Documents

Bill Summary

Sponsors
  • Vivian Davis Figures
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

Relating to wages; to 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 unless a wage differential is based upon one or more specified factors.

Subjects
Business and Labor

Bill Actions

Action Date Chamber Action
May 9, 2019 S Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Governmental Affairs

Bill Text

Download SB 399 PDF

Bill Documents

Type Link
Bill Text SB 399 - Introduced

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