Equal Pay and Discrimination Based on Sex and Gender
Equal Pay/Compensation Discrimination
The Equal Pay Act requires that men and women in the same workplace be given equal pay for equal work. The jobs need not be identical, but they must be ...
Equal Pay for Equal Work - U.S. Department of Labor
The Equal Pay Act of 1963, amending the Fair Labor Standards Act, protects against wage discrimination based on sex. The Equal Pay Act (EPA) protects ...
Equal Pay Act of 1963 - Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
The EPA prohibits sex-based wage discrimination between men and women in the same establishment who perform jobs that require substantially equal skill ...
Equal Pay and Discrimination Based on Sex and Gender - FindLaw
The EPA bans wage discrimination based on gender or sex. Specifically, the EPA makes it illegal to pay employees of the opposite sex different ...
What To Know About the Gender Wage Gap as the Equal Pay Act ...
For example, in 1964, the Civil Rights Act ensured that, under the law, sex- and race-based discrimination are illegal. In addition, the U.S. ...
Know Your Rights: The Equal Pay Act - AAUW
The Equal Pay Act of 1963 (EPA) is a federal law that prohibits pay discrimination on the basis of sex. Despite the passage of the this law more than a half a ...
Pay Discrimination - Equal Rights Advocates
Under the law, employees of the “opposite sex” — and in some states, of a different race or ethnicity — must be paid equally if they are doing “substantially ...
Quick Facts About the Gender Wage Gap
Discrimination. Gender-based pay discrimination has been illegal11 since 1963 but is still a frequent, widespread practice—particularly for ...
Equal Pay - Know Your Rights - Obama White House
Some of these laws cover employers that may not be covered by federal employment discrimination laws, and some cover additional bases such as sexual orientation ...
The Influence of Employment Discrimination on Health Disparities
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination in compensation based on race or sex, and the Equal Pay Act of 1963 prohibits differential ...
“Women's work” and the gender pay gap: How discrimination ...
Why it matters, and how to fix it: The gender wage gap is real—and hurts women across the board by suppressing their earnings and making it ...
Equal Pay in the United States: Salary History Bans
... gender wage gap, largely by increasing women's earnings. ... sex-based pay discrimination was the precise ... discrimination between men and women ...
Tackling sex discrimination through pay equity - InfoStories
Equal pay for equal work. Women and men should receive equal remuneration for work that is the same or similar. Gender pay gap by ...
Laws Prohibiting Sex Discrimination in Employment, Including the ...
The federal Equal Pay Act (EPA) of 1963 was designed specifically to eradicate wage discrimination based on sex. Ohio passed a similar law in 2000. Together, ...
Equal Pay Act: Closing the Gender Wage Gap - Giving Compass
The Equal Pay Act amended the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to prohibit pay discrimination based on sex. Specifically, employers must pay men and women ...
Discrimination in Pay: The Equal Pay Act
Employees who are able to demonstrate that their employers violate the Equal Pay Act and discriminate at the workplace on the basis of gender/sex in their pay ...
The Simple Truth About the Gender Pay Gap - AAUW
Over half a century after pay discrimination became illegal in the United States, a persistent pay gap between men and women continues to hurt our nation's ...
Protections in the Workplace: Equal Pay and Age Discrimination
Employers can't discriminate in pay based on age, race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, or ...
Honoring 60 Years of the Equal Pay Act and Advancing Pay Equity
Additionally, differences in jobs held by men and women may contribute to the gender pay gap. Jobs held primarily by women, such as nurses and ...
The Paycheck Fairness Act - American Bar Association
Gender-based wage discrimination remains a pernicious problem in the workplace despite enactment over 50 years ago of the Equal Pay Act of 1963 (EPA), ...
Equality Act 2010
The Equality Act 2010, often erroneously called the Equalities Act 2010, is an act of Parliament of the United Kingdom passed during the Brown ministry with the primary purpose of consolidating, updating and supplementing the numerous prior Acts and Regulations, that formed the basis of anti-discrimination law in mostly England, Scotland and Wales; some sections also apply to Northern Ireland.