PRINTER'S NO. 218
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
303
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY TEPLITZ, WILLIAMS, YUDICHAK, BREWSTER, BLAKE,
HUGHES, SCHWANK, COSTA, FONTANA, BOSCOLA, HAYWOOD, FARNESE,
TARTAGLIONE AND LEACH, JANUARY 26, 2015
REFERRED TO LABOR AND INDUSTRY, JANUARY 26, 2015
AN ACT
Amending the act of December 17, 1959 (P.L.1913, No.694),
entitled "An act prohibiting discrimination in rate of pay
because of sex; conferring powers and imposing duties on the
Department of Labor and Industry; and prescribing penalties,"
further providing for wage rates.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 3 of the act of December 17, 1959
(P.L.1913, No.694), known as the Equal Pay Law, amended July 31,
1968 (P.L.869, No.262), is amended to read:
Section 3. Wage Rates.--(a) No employer having employes
subject to any provisions of this section shall discriminate,
within any establishment in which such employes are employed,
between employes on the basis of sex by paying wages to employes
in such establishment at a rate less than the rate at which he
pays wages to employes of the opposite sex in such establishment
for equal work on jobs, the performance of which, requires equal
skill, effort, and responsibility, and which are performed under
similar working conditions, except where such payment is made
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