Labour Law Equal Pay For Equal Work In Pennsylvania
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Pennsylvania Human Relations P.L. 744, as amended): An act prohibiting certain practices of discrimination because of race, color, religious creed, ancestry, age, or national origin by employers, employment agencies, labor organizations, and others.
Filing a Claim for Employment Discrimination Before you may file a lawsuit against your employer in court, you must first file a complaint of discrimination with either the EEOC or PHRC. You must file the complaint with either agency within 180 days of the adverse employment action.
Salaried employees in Pennsylvania can work up to 4o hours. Any additional worked hours beyond 40 are compensated at 1.5 times the employee's hourly rate. Can an employer reduce your salary in Pennsylvania? The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania prohibits any unauthorized deductions for an employee's salary.
How Do HR Managers Typically Reduce Risk to the Company? In our experience, HR handles discrimination and similar issues by keeping them quiet and unknown to the public. Disciplining problematic employees, managers, or execs can be seen as far too risky to the company's performance and image.
Pennsylvania is an at-will employment state, which means that in the absence of a written employment or collective bargaining agreement, either the employer or the employee may terminate employment for any reason that is not contrary to law. Stumpp v. Stroudsburg Mun. Auth., 658 A. 2d 333, 335 (Pa. 1995).
If you are fired because you are pregnant, have a disability, are on maternity leave or complained about illegal discrimination, you may have a wrongful termination case.
Some jobs can be classed as equal work, even if the roles seem different. For example, a clerical job and a warehouse job might be classed as equal work.
