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The Equal Pay Act of 1963 is a United States labor law amending the Fair Labor Standards Act, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex (see gender pay gap). It was signed into law on June 10, 1963, by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program. [3] In passing the bill, Congress stated that sex discrimination: [4]
It was produced by the U.S. Department of Labor's Women's Bureau to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1963 Equal Pay Act. Date: 2014: Source: dol.gov/equalpay: Author:
The Bennett Amendment is a United States labor law provision in the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, §703(h) passed to limit sex discrimination claims regarding pay to the rules in the Equal Pay Act of 1963. It says an employer can "differentiate upon the basis of sex" when it compensates employees "if such differentiation is ...
H.R. Rep. No. 309, 88th Cong., 1st Sess., 3 (1963), U.S.Code Cong. & Admin.News 1963, p. 687. Equal Pay Act litigation, therefore, has been structured to permit employers to defend against charges of discrimination where their pay differentials are based on a bona fide use of "other factors other than sex."11 Under the Equal Pay Act, the courts ...
This is a chronological, but incomplete, list of United States federal legislation passed by the 57th through 106th United States Congresses, between 1901 and 2001. For the main article on this subject, see List of United States federal legislation.
Equal Pay Act 1970; Equal Pay Act of 1963; Equal Pay Day; Equal Remuneration Convention; Equal Treatment Directive 2006/54/EC; G. Gay wage gap; Gender and labor in ...
The 1961 Equal pay act (#60/1961), [19] 1976 Law for Equality between women and men (#78/1976 [20]), 2008 Act on Equal Status and Equal Rights of Women and Men (#10/2008) and the amendment added to the law in 2017: Law on equal pay certification [21] according to the Equal Pay Standard introduced in 2012 (ÍST 85:2012 [22])
Proponents of the Paycheck Fairness Act consider it an extension of the laws established by the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which makes it illegal for employers to pay unequal wages to men and women who perform substantially equal work. In order to find an employer in violation of the Equal Pay Act, a plaintiff must prove that "(1) the employer pays ...