This document discusses the concept of equal pay for equal work. It outlines the Equal Pay Act of 1963 which requires that employees performing jobs that require equal skill, effort, and responsibility under similar working conditions be paid similar salaries. The key aspects of "equal work" are defined as equal skill, equal effort, and equal responsibility. The document also notes that it is illegal to pay employees different wages based on their sex or to reduce an employee's wages. Finally, it briefly discusses the concept of a "fair day's pay for a fair day's work."

1. SOME
CURRENT
THOUGHTS
ON WAGES

2. “persons who work with
substantially
equal qualification, skill,
effort and responsibility,
under similar conditions,
should be paid similar
salaries,”

4. June 10, 1963 by the 88th Congress
Introduced in the 79th Congress of
the United States in 1945
This act covers both private and
public employees in United States
subject to the provisions of the Fair
Labor Standards Act.

5. a. Equal Skill
b. Equal Effort
c. Equal Responsibility

6. Equal skill
-Includes such factors as experience,
training, education,
and ability.

7. Equal effort
-Refers to the measurement of the physical
or mental exertion needed for
the performance of a job.

8. Equal responsibility
-Deals with the extent to which an employer depends
on the employee to perform the job as
expected, with emphasis on the
importance of the job obligation.

9. Similar Working Conditions
Holds the assumption that employees performing jobs
in an establishment that require equal skill, effort and responsibility
under similar working conditions.
•The fact that jobs are in different departments of a company do not
in any way establish dissimilarities of working conditions.
•It must be noted that an employer may not reduce the wage of
an employee.
•It is illegal for a labor organization or as agents or representatives
to cause or attempt to cause an employer to pay lower wages
to an employee on account of sex.

10. “fair day’s pay for fair day’s work.”

11. It is a term used to define a “fair and
decent” level of income that would
enable workers to meet their “basic
needs.”

12.  An ideal toward which individual strive
 It describe the actual conditions