Introduced
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To prohibit and make it a civil rights law violation to employ a person at a wage or salary that is less than an amount established under an interpretation of “comparable worth” devised by a government commission composed of various special interests and advocacy groups proposed by Senate Bill 341. The bill would prohibit different levels of compensation for work of “comparable value,” meaning a “comparable composite skill, responsibility, effort, education or training, and working conditions.” The bill does not specify how different kinds of work (as opposed to different people doing the same work) would be compared with regard to these various criteria.
Referred to the Committee on Economic Development
