New Laws
Jan. 21, 2016
SB 358: Expands wage equality protection
Gary M. McLaughlin
Partner
Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp LLP
Phone: (310) 312-2005
Email: gmm@msk.com
University of Virginia SOL; Charlottesville VA
Gary focuses his practice on the representation and counseling of employers in a wide variety of labor and employment matters, especially class, collective, and representative actions and other complex employment disputes. He represents Fortune 500 companies and other major employers in high stakes litigation and provides strategic counseling to avoid litigation.
Last October, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Senate Bill 358, which amends California's Fair Pay Act to significantly expand protections against gender inequality in wages. The new law took effect Jan. 1, and many have called it the toughest equal pay law in the nation.
Under the new law, an employer may not pay employees less than what it pays employees of the opposite sex for "substantially similar" work, unless the em...
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