Bill Text: MI HB5624 | 2023-2024 | 102nd Legislature | Introduced

Michigan House Bill 5624

Introduced

Bill Title: Labor: discrimination; certain protected attributes and characteristics of an employee; prohibit an employer from basing the employee's wage rate on. Amends 1978 PA 390 (MCL 408.471 - 408.490) by adding sec. 13b & repeals sec. 13 of 2018 PA 337 (MCL 408.943).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 35-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-21 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 03/20/2024 [HB5624 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2023-HB5624-Introduced.html

HOUSE BILL NO. 5624

March 20, 2024, Introduced by Reps. Conlin, Pohutsky, Rheingans, Byrnes, Dievendorf, Paiz, Young, Steckloff, Brixie, Hood, Arbit, Tsernoglou, Price, MacDonell, Glanville, McKinney, Breen, Wilson, Hope, Grant, Weiss, Wegela, Andrews, Coffia, Scott, McFall, Rogers, Skaggs, Brabec, Morgan, Hill, Farhat, Haadsma, Martus and Aiyash and referred to the Committee on Labor.

A bill to amend 1978 PA 390, entitled

"An act to regulate the time and manner of payment of wages and fringe benefits to employees; to prescribe rights and responsibilities of employers and employees, and the powers and duties of the department of labor; to require keeping of records; to provide for settlement of disputes regarding wages and fringe benefits; to prohibit certain practices by employers; to prescribe penalties and remedies; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts,"

(MCL 408.471 to 408.490) by adding section 13b; and to repeal acts and parts of acts.

the people of the state of michigan enact:

Sec. 13b. (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2), an employer shall not pay wages to an employee at a rate that is different than the rate the employer pays wages to another employee for equal work on jobs, the performance of which requires equal skill, effort, and responsibility and that is performed under similar working conditions, because of a protected attribute or characteristic of the employee.

(2) An employer does not violate subsection (1) if the employer pays wages at a rate in accordance with 1 or more of the following:

(a) A seniority system.

(b) A merit system.

(d) A factor other than a protected attribute or characteristic.

(3) An employer that violates subsection (1) shall not reduce the rate at which it pays wages to an employee to comply with subsection (1).

(4) As used in this section, "protected attribute or characteristic" means the religion, race, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, height, weight, marital status, or any other attribute or characteristic of an individual that is protected under the Elliot-Larsen civil rights act, 1976 PA 453, MCL 37.2101 to 37.2804.

Enacting section 1. Section 13 of the improved workforce opportunity wage act, 2018 PA 337, MCL 408.943, is repealed.