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Maryland Enacts Tough Equal Pay Law
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 May 27, 2016 | WAGES | …The Maryland equal pay law outlaws pay discrimination on the basis of sex or - and this is new - gender identity. It also closes loopholes employers now use to justify pay inequity. Ever since the original federal equal pay law, in 1962, firms have used those loopholes nationwide to keep women's pay far below that of men in equal jobs. Maryland's Equal Pay for Equal Work Act covers employees who work for the same employer at workplaces in the same county and who "perform work of comparable character or work in the same operation, in the same business, or of the same type." Even an anti-worker law firm concedes it "covers more than just pay disparities…. peoplesworld.org
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