Bill Text: MI SB0326 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Civil rights; employment discrimination; Michigan award for equal pay in the workplace program; create. Creates new act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-25 - Referred To Committee On Government Operations [SB0326 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-SB0326-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 326

 

 

April 25, 2017, Introduced by Senators WARREN, KNEZEK, HERTEL, HOOD, ANANICH, HOPGOOD, GREGORY, JOHNSON, YOUNG and BIEDA and referred to the Committee on Government Operations.

 

 

     A bill to create a program to encourage and recognize

 

employers who make progress in addressing pay inequality between

 

men and women who perform comparable work.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1. (1) This act shall be known and may be cited as the

 

"pay equity in the workplace award program act".

 

     (2) The pay equity in the workplace award program is

 

established in the department of civil rights. The program shall

 

encourage employers to eliminate barriers to equal pay for equal

 

work and to equalize pay between men and women who perform

 

comparable work. The program shall develop an award that recognizes

 

employers in this state that have achieved progress toward those

 

goals.

 

     (3) The director of the department of civil rights, in

 

cooperation with the executive office of the governor, shall create

 

benchmarks for model practices and eligibility criteria for

 

employers to receive the award developed under subsection (1). The

 

criteria must include that an employer has made substantial efforts

 

toward eliminating barriers to pay equality and has decreased pay

 

disparities between men and women who perform comparable work. The

 

director of the department of civil rights shall establish

 

procedures for nomination, application, and presentation of the

 

award at a ceremony recognizing employers throughout this state. An

 

award ceremony shall be organized so as to encourage proactive

 

efforts by other employers to equalize pay between men and women

 

performing comparable work.

 

     Enacting section 1. This act takes effect 90 days after the

 

date it is enacted into law.