Bill Text: IL SB1466 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Equal Pay Act of 2003. Expands discrimination protection from applying to only African American employees to applying to all employees belonging to a protected class that is based on race, color, national origin, or ancestry. Provides exemptions for payments made under a seniority system, a merit system, a system that measures earnings by quantity or quality of production, and a differential based on any factor other than race, color, national origin, or ancestry, or another factor that would constitute unlawful discrimination under the Illinois Human Rights Act.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB1466 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-SB1466-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning employment.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Equal Pay Act of 2003 is amended by changing | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | Section 10 as follows:
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6 | (820 ILCS 112/10)
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7 | Sec. 10. Prohibited acts.
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8 | (a) No employer may discriminate between employees on the | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | basis of sex by
paying wages
to an employee at a rate less than | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | the rate at which the employer pays wages to
another employee | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | of
the opposite sex for the same or substantially similar work | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | on jobs the
performance of which
requires equal skill, effort, | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | and responsibility, and which are performed under
similar | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | working
conditions, except where the payment is made under:
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15 | (1) a seniority system;
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16 | (2) a merit system;
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17 | (3) a system that measures earnings by quantity or | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | quality of production;
or
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19 | (4) a differential based on any other factor other
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20 | than: (i) sex or (ii) a factor that would constitute | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | unlawful discrimination
under the Illinois Human
Rights | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | Act.
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23 | No employer may discriminate between employees on the basis |
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1 | of race, color, national origin, or ancestry by paying wages to | ||||||
2 | an African-American employee at a rate less than the rate at | ||||||
3 | which the employer pays wages to another employee who is not a | ||||||
4 | member of a protected class that is based upon race, color, | ||||||
5 | national origin, or ancestry African-American for the same or | ||||||
6 | substantially similar work on jobs the performance of which | ||||||
7 | requires equal skill, effort, and responsibility, and which are | ||||||
8 | performed under similar working conditions, except where the | ||||||
9 | payment is made under: | ||||||
10 | (1) a seniority system; | ||||||
11 | (2) a merit system; | ||||||
12 | (3) a system that measures earnings by quantity or
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13 | quality of production; or | ||||||
14 | (4) a differential based on any other factor other
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15 | than: (i) race , color, national origin, or ancestry or (ii) | ||||||
16 | a factor that would constitute unlawful discrimination | ||||||
17 | under the Illinois Human Rights Act. | ||||||
18 | An employer who is paying wages in violation of this Act | ||||||
19 | may not,
to comply with
this Act, reduce the wages of any other | ||||||
20 | employee.
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21 | Nothing in this Act may be construed to require an employer | ||||||
22 | to pay, to
any employee at a workplace in a particular county, | ||||||
23 | wages that are equal
to the wages paid by that employer at a | ||||||
24 | workplace in another county to
employees in jobs the | ||||||
25 | performance of which requires equal skill, effort, and
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26 | responsibility, and which are performed under similar working |
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1 | conditions.
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2 | (b) It is unlawful for any employer to interfere with, | ||||||
3 | restrain, or
deny the exercise of or
the attempt to exercise | ||||||
4 | any right provided under this Act. It is
unlawful for any | ||||||
5 | employer
to discharge or in any other manner discriminate | ||||||
6 | against any individual for
inquiring about,
disclosing, | ||||||
7 | comparing, or otherwise discussing the employee's wages or the
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8 | wages
of any other
employee, or aiding or encouraging any | ||||||
9 | person to exercise his or her rights
under this
Act.
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10 | (c) It is unlawful for any person to discharge or in any | ||||||
11 | other manner
discriminate against any individual because the | ||||||
12 | individual:
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13 | (1) has filed any charge or has instituted or caused to | ||||||
14 | be instituted any
proceeding under or related to this Act;
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15 | (2) has given, or is about to give, any information in | ||||||
16 | connection with any
inquiry or proceeding relating to any | ||||||
17 | right provided under this Act; or
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18 | (3) has testified, or is about to testify, in any | ||||||
19 | inquiry or proceeding
relating to any right provided under | ||||||
20 | this Act.
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21 | (Source: P.A. 100-1140, eff. 1-1-19.)
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