Equal Pay Act
What is the full name for Equal Pay Act?
For Equal Pay Act, full name is Equal Pay Act of 1963; size rule is no employee-count threshold; requirement is No employer having employees subject to any provisions of this section shall discriminate, within any establishment in which such employees are employed, between employees on the basis of sex by paying wages to employees in such establishment at a rate less than the rate at which he pays wages to employees of the opposite sex in such establishment for equal work, recorded from its source on 2026-09-29; source re-checked 2026-11-01.
Virtually all employers are covered by the Equal Pay Act (EPA), which makes it illegal to pay different wages to men and women if they perform substantially equal work in the same workplace.
— eeoc.gov, retrieved 2026-09-29
- Law
- Equal Pay Act our reading
- Full name
- Equal Pay Act of 1963 verified
- Size rule
- no employee-count threshold our reading
- Requirement
- No employer having employees subject to any provisions of this section shall discriminate, within any establishment in which such employees are employed, between employees on the basis of sex by paying wages to employees in such establishment at a rate less than the rate at which he pays wages to employees of the opposite sex in such establishment for equal work verified
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Law and Size rule
Virtually all employers are covered by the Equal Pay Act (EPA), which makes it illegal to pay different wages to men and women if they perform substantially equal work in the same workplace.
Full name
may be cited as the 'Equal Pay Act of 1963'.
Requirement
No employer having employees subject to any provisions of this section shall discriminate, within any establishment in which such employees are employed, between employees on the basis of sex by paying wages to employees in such establishment at a rate less than the rate at which he pays wages to employees of the opposite sex in such establishment for equal work on jobs the performance of which requires equal skill, effort, and responsibility, and which are performed under similar working conditions
— all from eeoc.gov, retrieved 2026-09-29
Sources
- eeoc.govhttps://www.eeoc.gov/employers/coverage-businessprivate-employers
- uscode.house.govhttps://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section206&num=0&edition=prelim
- uscode.house.govhttps://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section201&num=0&edition=prelim