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Resolution authorizing the Mayor and Director of Department of Personnel and Civil Service Commission, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, to issue a Request for Proposals for the purpose of conducting a Gender Race Wage Disparity Study of the city's workforce.
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Whereas, the Congress of the United States of America enacted The Equal Pay Act of 1963, Pub. L. No. 88-38, 77 Stat. 56, (June 10, 1963) codified at 29 U.S.C. § 206(d), a United States federal law amending the Fair Labor Standards Act, aimed at abolishing wage differentials based on sex. In passing the bill, Congress denounces sex discrimination for the following reasons:
· it depresses wages and living standards for employees necessary for their health and efficiency;
· it prevents the maximum utilization of the available labor resources
· it tends to cause labor disputes, thereby burdening, affecting, and obstructing commerce;
· it burdens commerce and the free flow of goods in commerce; and
· it constitutes an unfair method of competition; and,
Whereas, the Equal Pay Act of 1963 provides (in part) that: No employer having employees subject to any provisions of this section [section 206 of title 29 of the United States Code] 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 at which he pays wages 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, except where such payment is made pursuant to (i) a seniority system; (ii) a merit system ; (iii) a system which measures earnings by quantity or quality of production; or (iv) a differential based on any other factor other than sex
Whereas, the Council of the City of Pittsburgh, as policy makers, cannot be indifferent ...
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