Equal Pay Act

The Equal Pay Act is an amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act which prohibits employers from discriminating between men and women by paying one gender more than the other “for equal work on jobs the performance of which requires equal skill, effort, and responsibility, and which are performed under similar working conditions.”

Penalties for Non-Compliance

Back pay for up to two years, or three years if the violation was willful, and liquidated damages in an amount equal to back pay.

Source: Society for Human Resource Management