Alabama Pay Equity
Statute
Classes protected
- Sex and Race
Key language on pay discrimination
- An employer, including the state or any of its political subdivisions, including public bodies, may not pay any of its employees at wage rates less than the rates paid to employees of another sex or race for equal work within the same establishment on jobs the performance of which requires equal skill, effort, education, experience, and responsibility, and performance under similar working conditions
Exceptions for pay disparities (including affirmative defenses)
- Seniority
- Merit
- System that measures earnings by quantity or quality of production
- Differential based on any factor other than sex or race
Prohibition on Salary History Inquiry
- An employer shall not refuse to interview, hire, promote, or employ an applicant for employment, or retaliate against an applicant for employment because the applicant does not provide wage history.
Anti-retaliation
- An employer shall not retaliate against an applicant for employment because the applicant does not provide wage history.
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