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Kansas Pay Equity

Statute

  • Minimum Wage and Maximum Hours Law, Kan. Stat. Ann. § 44-1205 (Discrimination In Payment of Wages)

Classes protected

  • Sex

Key language on pay discrimination

  • “[N]o employer having employees of both sexes shall discriminate, within any establishment in which such employees are employed, between employees on the basis of sex by paying wages to employees in such establishment at a rate less than the rate of wages paid to employees of the opposite sex in such establishment for equal work on jobs, the performance of which requires equal skill, effort and responsibility, and which are performed under similar working conditions[.]”

Exceptions for pay disparities (including affirmative defenses)

  • Seniority system
  • Merit system
  • System which measures earnings by quantity or quality of production
  • Differential based on a factor other than sex

Anti-retaliation

  • Unlawful for "any employer, employment agency or labor organization to discharge, expel or otherwise discriminate against any person because such person has opposed any practices or acts forbidden under this act or because such person has filed a complaint, testified or assisted in any proceeding under this act."

Key Contacts

  • Kathleen McLeod Caminiti
  • Lonnie Giamela
  • Sheila M. Abron
  • Jacklyn Rad 
  • Sarah Wieselthier
  • Monica Snyder Perl

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