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Originally Posted by speeder
I'd prefer to keep this out of PARF because I do not consider it political. I just have an honest question for anyone who might know about U.S. employment law. Is it illegal to not offer equal pay for equal work, as long as it's not based on ethnicity or gender?
And I'm sorry if it's a really dumb question but I don't know the answer. IOW, can an employer pay different people different amounts who do essentially the same job based on subjective criteria? Such as the employer thinks that one person represents his company better than another person, (employee)? Can they do this secretly, i.e. w/o the lesser paid employee finding out?
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I think you have a misunderstanding of the "Equal Pay for Equal Work Laws." They were passed, initially, in 1963 to end pay discrimination against women and they cannot be separated from gender, religion, or ethnicity. The legislation was never intended to require an employer to pay every employee the exact same amount for doing the same type of work. Obvious case in point, teachers whose salaries range widely for doing the same work--the differences being based on background training, education, and experience.