A 1963 federal law requires equal pay for equal work by women and men, but Mississippi has been the only state without its own equal pay law since Alabama enacted one in 2019. It’ll become the final state to add one when House Bill 770 becomes law in July.
Several exceptions are allowed, including seniority, merit, quantity or quality of production and “any factor other than sex,” including salary history and whether there was competition to hire an employee.
Cassandra Welchlin, leader of the Mississippi Black Women’s Roundtable, advocates for equal pay but said the new law is “harmful” because it would allow an employer to pay a woman less than a man based on the pay history that workers bring into new jobs.by the Mississippi University Research Center showed women earned 27% less than men for full-time work in Mississippi, compared to a 19% wage gap nationwide.
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