3.0.0 841 2020-02-10T17:00:21Z 2020-02-10T17:00:21Z Senate S S 2005-04-19 109 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2005-04-19T22:22:05Z 2005-04-19 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2005-04-19 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3900-3901) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2005-04-19 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C001041 Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] HILLARY CLINTON D NY R N R000146 Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV] HARRY REID D NV M. 2005-04-19 True K000105 Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA] EDWARD KENNEDY D MA MOORE 2005-04-19 True H000206 Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA] THOMAS HARKIN D IA RICHARD 2005-04-19 True D000563 Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] Richard Durbin D IL J. 2005-04-19 True L000550 Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA] MARY LANDRIEU D LA 2005-04-19 True C001042 Sen. Corzine, Jon S. [D-NJ] JON CORZINE D NJ S. 2005-04-19 True L000174 Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT] Patrick Leahy D VT 2005-04-19 True S000148 Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY] Charles Schumer D NY E. 2005-04-19 True S000770 Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI] Debbie Stabenow D MI 2005-04-19 True M001111 Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA] Patty Murray D WA 2005-04-20 False F000061 Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI] RUSSELL FEINGOLD D WI D. 2005-04-20 False B000711 Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA] BARBARA BOXER D CA 2005-05-11 False C000127 Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA] Maria Cantwell D WA 2005-07-29 False D000596 Sen. Dayton, Mark [D-MN] MARK DAYTON D MN 2006-02-06 False D000388 Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT] CHRISTOPHER DODD D CT JOHN 2006-03-16 False M000702 Sen. Mikulski, Barbara A. [D-MD] BARBARA MIKULSKI D MD ANN 2006-03-16 False R000122 Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI] John Reed D RI F. 2006-04-05 False M000639 Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ] Robert Menendez D NJ 2006-05-25 False Labor and Employment Administrative procedure Apprenticeship Awards, medals, prizes Business records Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues Civil actions and liability Civil rights enforcement Class actions (Civil procedure) Commemorations Commerce Conferences Congress Congressional reporting requirements Damages Department of Education Department of Labor Disciplining of employees Discrimination in employment Economics and Public Finance Education Elementary and secondary education Employee rights Employee training Employers' liability Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Evidence (Law) Expert witnesses Federal aid to education Federal employees Government Operations and Politics Government and business Government contractors Government paperwork Government publicity Governmental investigations Higher education Labor statistics Labor unions Law Legal fees Pay equity Personnel records Position classification Punitive damages Sex discrimination Supervisors Surveys Vocational and technical education Wage surveys Wages Whistle blowing Women Women's education Women's employment Labor and Employment 00 2005-04-19 Introduced in Senate 2005-05-10T21:58:10Z Paycheck Fairness Act - Amends the portion of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) known as the Equal Pay Act to revise remedies for and enforcement of prohibitions against sex discrimination in the payment of wages to: (1) add nonretaliation requirements; (2) increase penalties; and (3) authorize the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary) to seek additional compensatory or punitive damages.

Requires the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs to train EEOC employees and affected individuals and entities on matters involving wage discrimination.

Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to eligible entities for negotiation skills training programs for girls and women. Directs the Secretaries of Labor and Education to issue regulations or policy guidance to integrate such training into certain programs under their Departments.

Directs the Secretary to provide for certain studies, information, national summit, and guidelines, awards, and assistance for employer evaluations of job categories based on objective criteria.

Establishes the Secretary of Labor's National Award for Pay Equity in the Workplace.

Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to require the EEOC to collect certain pay information.

Directs: (1) the Commissioner of Labor Statistics to collect data on woman workers in the Current Employment Statistics survey; (2) the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs to use specified types of methods in investigating compensation discrimination and in enforcing pay equity; and (3) the Secretary to make accurate information on compensation discrimination readily available to the public.]]>

Paycheck Fairness Act Short Titles as Introduced Paycheck Fairness Act Display Title Paycheck Fairness Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate 2005-04-19T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-109s841is/xml/BILLS-109s841is.xml 2005-04-19 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.