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MI HB5624
Bill
Status
3/20/2024
Primary Sponsor
Jennifer Conlin
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AI Summary
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Prohibits employers from paying different wage rates to employees performing equal work based on protected attributes or characteristics including religion, race, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, height, weight, marital status, or other attributes protected under the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act.
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Allows wage differentials based on seniority systems, merit systems, production-based earnings systems, or factors other than protected attributes.
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Requires employers to comply by raising wages rather than reducing them, prohibiting wage cuts as a means of achieving pay equity.
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Repeals section 13 of the 2018 Improved Workforce Opportunity Wage Act.
Legislative Description
Labor: discrimination; certain protected attributes and characteristics of an employee; prohibit an employer from basing the employee's wage rate on. Amends 1978 PA 390 (MCL 408.471 - 408.490) by adding sec. 13b & repeals sec. 13 of 2018 PA 337 (MCL 408.943).
Labor: hours and wages
Last Action
Placed On Third Reading
12/13/2024