Jurisdiction Equal Pay Law Protected Class(es) Type of Work Compared Permissible Factors for Pay Differential Salary History Inquiries Permitted? AL Alabama Sex, race Equal work within the same establishment on jobs the performance of which requires equal skill, effort, education, experience, and responsibility, and which are performed under similar working conditions. If pursuant to a seniority system; a merit system; a system which measures earnings by quantity or quality of production; or a differential based on any other factor other than sex or race. While there is no outright ban, employers may 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. Wage history means the wages paid to an applicant for employment by the applicant’s current or former employer. AK Alaska Gender Work of comparable character or work in the same operation, business, or type of work in the same locality. Not addressed in statute, but addressed in regulations. It is a defense to a complaint of unlawful discrimination to establish by clear and convincing evidence that a distinction in employment prohibited by AS 18.80.220(a) (1) is required by business necessity or the reasonable demands of the position. “Business necessity” or “reasonable demands of the position” means that the distinction is necessary to the safe and efficient operation of the business; the business purpose is sufficiently compelling to override any disproportionate impact on an individual protected by AS 18.80.220(a), and the challenged business practice efficiently carries out the business purpose it is alleged to serve, and there is no available or acceptable policy or practice which would better accomplish the business purpose advanced or accomplish it equally well with less discriminatory impact on the complainant. No state law AZ Arizona Gender Same quantity and quality of the same classification of work in the same establishment. Difference in seniority, length of service, ability, skill, difference in duties or services performed; difference in the shift or time of day worked, hours of work; or restrictions or prohibitions on lifting or moving objects in excess of specified weight, or other reasonable differentiation other than sex, when exercised in good faith. No state law 3 | 50 STATE EQUAL PAY REFERENCE GUIDE AS OF JULY 2023
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