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yeah, as best I can tell you absolutely can pay someone more if they are better at their job under equal pay laws. In California for example, the equal pay act
by lsiebert 5y ago
yeah, as best I can tell you absolutely can pay someone more if they are better at their job under equal pay laws.
In California for example, the equal pay act requires 'equal pay for employees who perform “substantially similar work,” when viewed as a composite of skill, effort, and responsibility.'
https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/California_Equal_Pay_Act.htm https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/California_Equal_Pay_Act.htm
Someone who contributes more inherently must have greater skills and/or put in greater effort, and likely greater responsibility, given they are accomplishing more tasks.
You can pay differently based on a seniority system, a merit system, a system that measures earnings by quantity or quality of production, or another bonafide factor such as education, training or experience.
Here's a copy of that law, it's pretty short.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=LAB§ionNum=1197.5 https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio....
- sokoloff 5y agoMA law is fairly similar. My concerns around transparency are mostly individual privacy concerns rather than believing that employees (or even regulators) can’t understand generally why two people could justly be paid different quantities of the local currency. No place is (yet) mandating perfect sameness of the latter and I don’t expect that to be policy in my lifetime or while we have the concept of money as a society.
- lsiebert 5y agoAFAIK pay transparency doesn't require them to say who gets paid what specifically. In a large company, how would you even know?