Alaska Pay Equity
Statute
Classes protected
- Sex
Key language on pay discrimination
- Illegal for an employer to “discriminate in the payment of wages as between the sexes, or to employ a female in an occupation in this state at a salary or wage rate less than that paid to a male employee for work of comparable character or work in the same operation, business, or type of work in the same locality.”
Exceptions for pay disparities (including affirmative defenses)
- May provide greater health and retirement benefits to employees who have a spouse or dependent children.
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