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New Jersey: The State’s Equal Pay Law Will Soon Apply to All Protected Classes

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July 1, 2018

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New Jersey recently enacted stronger protections to its equal pay laws. Currently, employers are prohibited from discrimination in method or payment of wages based on sex. Effective July 1, 2018, this protection will soon apply to anyone in a protected class. The Diane B. Allen Equal Pay Act prohibits paying any member of a protected class “at a rate of compensation, including benefits, which is less than the rate paid … to employees who are not members of the protected class for substantially similar work when viewed as a composite of skill, effort and responsibility.”

California: Equal Pay Obligations Expanded to Cover Race and Ethnicity

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January 1, 2017

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California employers struggled this year to fully wrap their arms around the Fair Pay Act, which requires businesses to pay the same wage to employees of different genders who perform substantially similar work. Governor Brown has now signed the Wage and Equality Act of 2016 (the “Act”) into law, which adds workers of differing race or ethnicity as having the same protections similarly present under the Fair Pay Act.