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1967 • The Age Discrimination in Employment Act <br />became law, protecting workers 40 years and <br />older. <br />1972 • Title IX of the Education Amendments, the <br />first comprehensive federal law to prohibit sex <br />discrimination in education, was enacted. <br />1990 • Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act <br />was passed to protect against discrimination <br />based on disability status, including in <br />employment. <br />1993 • The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) <br />was signed into law by President Clinton, <br />providing unpaid protected leave for <br />employees in need of time off for family and <br />medical related issues. <br />1994 • The Fair Pay Act, which addresses unequal <br />pay between female -dominated jobs <br />equivalent to male -dominated jobs, was first <br />introduced. The legislation would take steps <br />to protect employees who discuss their pay <br />and require employers to preserve wage - <br />related data for submission to the EEOC. As of <br />the 115th Congress, the bill has yet to pass. <br />1997 • The Paycheck Fairness Act, an update to the <br />Equal Pay Act of 1963, was first introduced. <br />The current bill would close loopholes, <br />strengthen remedies to prevent pay <br />discrimination, ban the use of prior salary <br />history, prohibit retaliation against workers <br />who discuss, disclose, or inquire about <br />their wages, and direct the EEOC to collect <br />wage related data. Every year since 1997 <br />the legislation has been reintroduced, even <br />passing the House in 2009 before falling <br />short in the Senate. As of the 115th Congress, <br />the bill has yet to pass. <br />AAUW • www.aauw.org <br />2008 • The Americans with Disabilities <br />Amendments Act (ADAAA) was passed to <br />update and strengthen the ADA of 1990. The <br />law made a number of significant changes <br />to the definition of "disability" under the ADA <br />and addressed problematic court decisions <br />that had made the ADA weaker over time. <br />2009 • The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act was enacted <br />to address the unfortunate Supreme Court <br />case, Ledbetter v. Goodyear, which sided <br />with Ledbetter's employer in her pay <br />discrimination case, overturning 40 years <br />of precedent in discrimination cases. The <br />law clarifies that pay discrimination can <br />occur when a pay decision is made, when <br />an employee is subject to that decision, or <br />at any time that an employee is injured by <br />the decision. <br />2014 • President Barack Obama signed AAUW- <br />supported executive orders to increase <br />pay protections for women. The provisions <br />directed the federal government to collect <br />more wage data and prohibited federal <br />contractors from retaliating against their <br />workers for discussing, disclosing, or <br />inquiring about their wages. <br />2016 1 The Pay Equity for All Act, which would <br />prohibit the use of prior salary history <br />before making a job offer, was first <br />introduced. As of the 115th Congress, the <br />bill has yet to pass. <br />2017 • President Donald Trump halted <br />implementation of the EEOC's pay data <br />collection tool, which would have helped to <br />better identify trends in pay disparities based <br />on gender, race, and ethnicity. <br />THE SIMPLE TRUTH ABOUT THE GENDER PAY GAP 1 Fall 2018 Edition <br />a3 <br />