shift differentials, physical surroundings and hazards
encountered by employes performing a job.
* * *
Section 2. Section 3(a) of the act, amended July 31, 1968
(P.L.869, No.262), is amended to read:
Section 3. Wage Rates.--(a) No employer having employes
subject to any provisions of this section shall discriminate,
within any establishment in which such employes are employed,
between employes on the basis of sex by paying wages to employes
in such establishment at a rate less than the rate at which he
pays wages to employes 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]
comparable work performed under similar working conditions,
except where such payment is made pursuant to (1) a seniority
system, so long as time spent on leave due to a pregnancy-
related condition or protected parental, family or medical leave
may not reduce seniority; (2) a merit system; (3) a system which
measures earnings by quantity or quality of production; [or] (4)
a differential based on any other factor other than [sex:] sex;
(5) the geographic location where a job is performed; (6)
education, training or experience to the extent the factors are
reasonably related to the job and consistent with business
necessity; or (7) travel if the travel is a regular and
necessary condition of the job: Provided, That any employer who
is paying a wage rate differential in violation of this
subsection shall not in order to comply with the provisions of
this subsection, reduce the wage rate of any employe. The job
title or job description alone shall not determine if two jobs
are comparable.
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