HB 770 - Requires Gender Pay Equity - Mississippi Key Vote
Doug McLeod voted Yea (Conference Report Vote) on this Legislation.
Timeline
- Executive Signed
- April 20, 2022
- Senate Conference Report Adopted
- March 30, 2022
- House Conference Report Adopted
- March 30, 2022
- Senate Bill Passed
- March 9, 2022
- House Bill Passed
- Jan. 20, 2022
- Introduced
- Jan. 17, 2022
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Stage Details
Title: Requires Gender Pay Equity
Signed by Governor Tate Reeves
Title: Requires Gender Pay Equity
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to adopt a conference report and pass a bill that requires gender pay equity in all workplaces.
Highlights:
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Prohibits any employer from paying an employee a wage at a rate less than the rate they pay the opposite sex in the same establishment for equal work on a job, the performance of which requires equal skill, education, effort, and responsibility (Sec. 3).
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Exempts payment based on seniority, merit, or a system that measures earnings by quantity or quality of production (Sec. 3).
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Requires attorney fees be awarded to an employee whose employer was found to have violated this act (Sec. 3).
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Prohibits an employer from reducing the wage of an employee in order to comply with this act (Sec. 3).
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Prohibits any employer from discharging, discriminating, or other wise retaliating against an employee who took action against them in order to invoke enforcement of this act (Sec. 3).
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Requires civil action be brought no later than 2 years after the day in which the employee knew or should have known their employer was in violation of this act (Sec. 4).
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Establishes that this act shall take effect July 1, 2022 (Sec. 5).
Title: Requires Gender Pay Equity
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to adopt a conference report and pass a bill that requires gender pay equity in all workplaces.
Highlights:
-
Prohibits any employer from paying an employee a wage at a rate less than the rate they pay the opposite sex in the same establishment for equal work on a job, the performance of which requires equal skill, education, effort, and responsibility (Sec. 3).
-
Exempts payment based on seniority, merit, or a system that measures earnings by quantity or quality of production (Sec. 3).
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Requires attorney fees be awarded to an employee whose employer was found to have violated this act (Sec. 3).
-
Prohibits an employer from reducing the wage of an employee in order to comply with this act (Sec. 3).
-
Prohibits any employer from discharging, discriminating, or other wise retaliating against an employee who took action against them in order to invoke enforcement of this act (Sec. 3).
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Requires civil action be brought no later than 2 years after the day in which the employee knew or should have known their employer was in violation of this act (Sec. 4).
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Establishes that this act shall take effect July 1, 2022 (Sec. 5).
Title: Requires Gender Pay Equity
Title: Requires Gender Pay Equity
Title: Requires Gender Pay Equity
- William Tracy Arnold (MS - R)
- Willie L. Bailey (MS - D)
- Larry Byrd (MS - R)
- Angela Cockerham (MS - D)
- Stephanie McKenzie Foster (MS - D)
- Karl Gibbs (MS - D)
- Philip Gunn (MS - R)
- Jeffery K. Harness (MS - D)
- Kabir Karriem (MS - D)
- Missy Warren McGee (MS - R)
- Carl L. Mickens (MS - D)
- Tom Miles (MS - D) (Out Of Office)
- Orlando W. 'Lil Red' Paden (MS - D)
- De'Keither A. Stamps (MS - D) (Out Of Office)