Pay equity bill passed
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The House on Thursday passed pay equity legislation 158-0, an effort to ensure that men and women are paid the same for comparable work. The Senate passed the bill unanimously in January and Gov. Charlie Baker has urged the Legislature to send him a pay equity bill this month.
“Pay equity gets at the heart of who we are as Americans,” House Speaker Robert DeLeo said in a statement after the vote. "I want to offer my sincerest thanks to the legislators who have raised their voices and tenaciously pursued this issue for decades. Your work will shape a better and more just future for women in the Commonwealth."
According to DeLeo's office, the bill prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender in the payment of wages for comparable work "unless the variation is based upon a mitigating factor including seniority (provided that paternal, family, and medical leave don’t reduce seniority); a system that measures earnings by quantity or quality of production, sales, or revenue; education, training or experience."
The bill also includes a first-in-the-nation provision to prevent employers from requesting salary history in hiring.
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