Stronger equal-pay protections for women and people of color coming soon in California
Stronger equal-pay protections for women and people of color coming soon in California
| Sophia Bollag |
Equal-pay laws in California will get tougher under two bills Gov. Jerry Brown signed Friday.
The two new laws will strengthen wage-equity protections for women and people of color.
One will prohibit employers from paying women less than male colleagues based on prior salary. The other will bar employers from paying workers doing “substantially similar” jobs different wages based on their race or ethnicity.
The announcement comes less than a year after California lawmakers passed one of the toughest equal-pay bills in the country. That law applied the “substantially similar” provision to protect against gender-based wage discrimination.
The bills signed Friday take effect Jan. 1.
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