Labor/Employment
Jan. 4, 2017
2016 gender pay law made splash, but application still unclear
California's Fair Pay Act, implemented a year ago, has triggered a modest increase in gender pay discrimination complaints and two complementing laws. Its most important effect has been uncertainty about how courts and regulators will interpret what "substantially similar" means.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
California's Fair Pay Act, perhaps the most ambitious state gender pay equity law in the nation, just celebrated its one-year anniversary, and employment lawyers remain confused as to how it will be applied.
The law, implemented Jan. 1, 2016, got national attention, because it changed California's gender pay equity standard from "equal pay for equal work," to "substantially similar" work betw...
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