Title: Requires Gender Pay Equity
Signed by Governor Tate Reeves
Title: Requires Gender Pay Equity
Vote to adopt a conference report and pass a bill that requires gender pay equity in all workplaces.
Prohibits any employer from paying an employee a wage at a rate less than the rate they pay the opposite sex in the same establishment for equal work on a job, the performance of which requires equal skill, education, effort, and responsibility (Sec. 3).
Exempts payment based on seniority, merit, or a system that measures earnings by quantity or quality of production (Sec. 3).
Requires attorney fees be awarded to an employee whose employer was found to have violated this act (Sec. 3).
Prohibits an employer from reducing the wage of an employee in order to comply with this act (Sec. 3).
Prohibits any employer from discharging, discriminating, or other wise retaliating against an employee who took action against them in order to invoke enforcement of this act (Sec. 3).
Requires civil action be brought no later than 2 years after the day in which the employee knew or should have known their employer was in violation of this act (Sec. 4).
Establishes that this act shall take effect July 1, 2022 (Sec. 5).
Title: Requires Gender Pay Equity
Vote to adopt a conference report and pass a bill that requires gender pay equity in all workplaces.
Prohibits any employer from paying an employee a wage at a rate less than the rate they pay the opposite sex in the same establishment for equal work on a job, the performance of which requires equal skill, education, effort, and responsibility (Sec. 3).
Exempts payment based on seniority, merit, or a system that measures earnings by quantity or quality of production (Sec. 3).
Requires attorney fees be awarded to an employee whose employer was found to have violated this act (Sec. 3).
Prohibits an employer from reducing the wage of an employee in order to comply with this act (Sec. 3).
Prohibits any employer from discharging, discriminating, or other wise retaliating against an employee who took action against them in order to invoke enforcement of this act (Sec. 3).
Requires civil action be brought no later than 2 years after the day in which the employee knew or should have known their employer was in violation of this act (Sec. 4).
Establishes that this act shall take effect July 1, 2022 (Sec. 5).
Title: Requires Gender Pay Equity
Title: Requires Gender Pay Equity
Title: Requires Gender Pay Equity