Equal Pay Act of 1963: A Brief Refresher
Only about 1,000 charges were brought in 2004 to the EEOC for alleged violations of the Equal Pay Act, but it cannot hurt to have a brief refresher on this law. Thanks to HRhero.com, we are reminded of the following points under this law:
it applies to all employers, regardless of the number of employees, that engage in “interstate commerce”;
employees filing under this law aren’t required to show that you intended to discriminate against them;
when setting salaries, reliance on even seemingly “neutral” factors, such as a prospective employee’s salary history, may later be viewed as an unlawful perpetuation of a history of discrimination
to prove discrimination under this law, an employee (male or female) must show only that (1) in the same establishment, employees of the opposite sex earn different wages, even though they perform equal work on jobs requiring equal skill, effort, and responsibility, under similar working conditions.
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