Maryland Significantly Expands Equal Pay for Equal Work Act
APPLIES TO All Employers with Maryland Employees |
EFFECTIVE October 1, 2016 |
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HB 1003 amends Maryland’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act of 2016 (“the Act”) to include significant new provisions designed to (1) prohibit pay discrimination based on gender identity, and (2) boost pay transparency. The Act already prohibits wage differentials on the basis of sex, where employees “work in the same establishment and perform work of comparable character, or work on the same operation in the same business or of the same type.”
New, key amendments to the Act include: