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MI HB4291

Bill

Status

Introduced

3/25/2025

Primary Sponsor

Jennifer Conlin

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Origin

House of Representatives

103rd Legislature

AI Summary

  • Prohibits employers from paying different wages to employees performing equal work requiring equal skill, effort, and responsibility under similar working conditions based on protected attributes or characteristics

  • Protected attributes include religion, race, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, height, weight, marital status, and any characteristic protected under the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act

  • Permits wage differences based on seniority systems, merit systems, systems measuring quantity or quality of production, or factors unrelated to protected characteristics

  • Prohibits employers from reducing any employee's wages to achieve compliance with the equal pay requirement

  • Repeals Section 13 of the Improved Workforce Opportunity Wage Act (2018 PA 337)

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

Bill Electronically Reproduced 03/25/2025

3/26/2025

Committee Referrals

Economic Competitiveness3/25/2025

Full Bill Text

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