MI SB0486

Adds a new definition of "compensation" to include all employee earnings and benefits, regardless of how they are calculated (by time, task, piece, commission, or other method).

Replaces the mandatory retirement requirement for tenured higher education employees (which expired January 1, 1994) with a new prohibition requiring employers to provide equal compensation for work of comparable value based on composite skill, responsibility, effort, education or training, and working conditions.

Adds new subsection (4) to section 102 allowing individuals to bring discrimination claims based on conduct similar to that prohibited in section 202(1)(d), regardless of when the conduct occurred before the amendment's effective date.

Clarifies that the civil rights act does not prevent individuals from continuing sex discrimination actions based on harassment conduct occurring before July 18, 1980, and familial status discrimination actions based on age-related conduct occurring before June 29, 1992.

Redefines "familial status" to explicitly include pregnant persons as "parents" for purposes of civil rights protections.