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Facts About Equal Pay and Compensation Discrimination


Facts About Equal Pay and Compensation Discrimination

This document provides general information about compensation discrimination under the EEO laws, including Title VII, EPA, ADEA, ADA, and GINA.

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 (EPA) protects individuals of all sexes. All forms of compensation are covered, including salary, overtime pay, bonuses, life insurance, ...

Equal Pay Fact Sheet - A Better Balance

Title VII broadly prohibits sex discrimination in compensation, whereas the EPA prohibits employers from paying men and women in the same workplace unequal ...

Equal Pay and Compensation Discrimination - FindLaw

The Equal Pay Act states that male and female workers must get the same pay for the same job. The jobs need not be identical, but they must be equivalent.

Pay discrimination - Worker.gov

Under the Equal Pay Act, women and men have the right to receive equal pay if they perform equal work in the same workplace.

Equal Pay Act of 1963: Overview, Benefits, and Criticisms

The Equal Pay Act of 1963 is a US law that prohibits employers from paying different wages to men and women who work under similar conditions.

OFCCP Equal Pay Day Fact Sheet - U.S. Department of Labor

10 This suggests that salary history bans help to level the playing field between workers and employers by limiting the effects of past discrimination or ...

Quick Facts About the Gender Wage Gap

Beyond explicit decisions to pay women less than men, employers may discriminate in pay when they rely on prior salary history in hiring and ...

Pay and Benefits Equal Pay - Employer.gov

Under one federal law, women and men have the right to receive equal pay if they perform equal work in the same workplace.

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 ...

Equal Pay Act

The Equal Pay Act is a labor law that prohibits gender-based wage discrimination in the United States. Signed by President Kennedy in 1963.

Equal Pay / Gender Pay Equality - Rodman Employment Law

Employers are prohibited at both the state and federal level from using a protected class to discriminate against what employees are paid.

Equal Pay and Compensation Discrimination

Both state and federal law prohibit discrimination in wages, salaries or other compensation on ... The federal Equal Pay Act (EPA) requires that men and women be ...

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 ...

Gender pay gap in U.S. hasn't changed much in two decades

In 2022, women earned an average of 82% of what men earned, according to a new analysis of median hourly earnings of full- and part-time ...

Know Your Rights: The Equal Pay Act - AAUW

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is the federal agency charged with enforcing this and other employment discrimination laws. EPA amended the ...

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), ...

Everything you need to know about pushing for pay equity

Restrictive, traditional gender roles are also spurring pay inequalities. Gender stereotypes steer women away from occupations traditionally dominated by men ...

What To Know About the Gender Wage Gap as the Equal Pay Act ...

In fact, new estimates from the Center for American Progress show that the cumulative cost of the gender pay gap to women is $61 trillion since ...