Equal Pay Act of 1963

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Equal Pay Act of 1963

• Presented by
• Ankit Patel

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Equal Pay Act 1968

• History
• large number of American women taking jobs
  during World War II
• Until the early 1960s separate pay scales for
  male and female for identical jobs
• Equal Pay Act on June 10, 1963 - became illegal
  to pay women lower rates for the same job

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Equal Pay Act 1968

• Developments
• Schultz v. Wheaton Glass Co. (1970), U.S. Court
  of Appeals for the Third Circuit
• Ruled that jobs to be Substantially Equal and
  not Identical
• Corning Glass Works v. Brennan (1974), U.S.
  Supreme Court
• Traditionally paid by going market rate
  unjustified for lower wages

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Equal Pay Act 1968

• Main Aspects
• Established the concept of equal pay for equal
  work.
• Prohibits wage differentials based on gender
  between men and women performing the same work in
  organizations.

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Equal Pay Act 1968

• Main Aspects
• "equal skill, effort, and responsibility and
  performed under similar working conditions," .
• It does not prohibit other discriminatory
  practices bias in hiring.

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Equal Pay Act 1968

• It is unlawful for employers to reduce the wages
  of either sex to equalize pay between men and
  women
• A violation may occur where a different wage is
  paid to a person who worked in the same job
  before or after an employee of the opposite sex

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Equal Pay Act 1968

• A violation may also take place where a labor
  union causes the employer to violate the law
• An employer is permitted to base salary
  differences on seniority, merit, and quantity or
  quality of production - in fact, generally any
  other business-related factor, as long as it is
  not based on a persons sex

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Equal Pay Act 1968

• Employers found in violation of the EPA can
  be compelled to pay back the pay, punitive
  relief, and liquidated damages if the violation
  is shown to be willful.

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Equal Pay Act 1968

• Today
• Radical change is yet to be seen in women's pay
• Women earned 59 of the wages men earned in 1963
• in 1999 they earned 72 of men's wagesan
  improvement of less than half a penny a year

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Equal Pay Act 1968

• Today
• EPA/Title VII case against Jacobs Engineering
  Group, Inc., EEOC charged that a Level IV female
  estimator for the company, who had been promoted
  several times, was paid less than the company's
  male estimators with similar experience levels -
  even though the female estimator was performing
  substantially similar work When the female
  employee questioned, she was given gender-related
  explanations and refused to increase her wage.
  The case is pending.

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Equal Pay Act 1968

• Today
• Women have made enormous progress in the
  workforce since the Equal Pay Act, but almost
  four decades later the basic goal of the act has
  not been realized.

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Equal Pay Act 1968

• Thank you.