PRINTER'S NO. 647
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
578
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY WILLIAMS, LEACH, FARNESE, FONTANA, YUDICHAK,
BREWSTER, STREET, HAYWOOD, COSTA, SCHWANK, HUGHES, BOSCOLA,
BROWNE AND BLAKE, APRIL 5, 2017
REFERRED TO LABOR AND INDUSTRY, APRIL 5, 2017
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, 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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