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| Name: | Equal Pay Act 1963 (EPA) (29 U.S.C., Chapter 8 sec. 206(d)). |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Subject(s): | Equality of opportunity and treatment |
| Type of legislation: | Law, Act |
| Adopted on: | 1963 |
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| ISN: | USA-1963-L-71995 |
| Link: | https://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/natlex4.detail?p_isn=71995&p_lang=en |
| Bibliography: | Legislation on-line  US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), United States of America (consulted on 2018-02-14) |
| Abstract/Citation: | The EPA, which is part of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended (FLSA), and which is administered and enforced by the EEOC, prohibits sex-based wage discrimination between men and women in the same establishment who perform jobs that require substantially equal skill, effort and responsibility under similar working conditions. |
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