Work & Family Policy Database

Equal Pay

State: Missouri

Subject: Fair Pay

Bill: H.B. 520

Introduced and Read First Time: 02/07/13

Read Second Time: 02/11/13

Referred to Committee on Workplace Development and Workplace Safety, No hearing scheduled: 05/17/13

Summary:

Would create the Equal Pay Commission to make a full and complete study of the extent of wage disparities, the factors that cause such disparities and the consequences of them, and what actions, including proposed legislation, that are likely to lead to the elimination and prevention of such disparities.

The bill text can be found here.

Entry updated as of: March 20, 2014.

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