How is the Paycheck Fairness Act different from the Fair Pay Act?
The Paycheck Fairness Act would improve the Equal Pay Act to provide better enforcement for sex-based wage discrimination where employees receive unequal pay for equal work. The Fair Pay Act, which has been introduced in the past, prohibits wage discrimination on the basis of sex, race or national origin for employees working in equivalent jobs, or jobs where the effort, responsibility, and working conditions are equivalent in value, even if the jobs are dissimilar.
