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EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK ACT POLICY The General Assembly of Georgia hereby declares that the practice of discriminating on the basis of sex by paying wages to employees of one sex at a lesser rate than the rate paid to employees of the opposite sex for comparable work on jobs which require the same or essentially the same knowledge, skill, effort and responsibility unjustly discriminates against the person receiving the lesser rate: It is hereby declared to be the policy of the State of Georgia through the exercise of the police power of this State to correct and, as rapidly as possible, to eliminate discriminatory wage practices based on sex. PROHIBITION OF DISCRIMINATION No employer having employees subject to any provisions of this section shall discriminate, within any establishment in which such employees are employed, between employees on the basis of sex by paying wages at a rate less than the rate paid to the opposite sex, EXCEPT WHERE SUCH PAYMENT IS MADE PURSUANT TO: 1. A seniority system; 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: Provided, that an 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 employee. It shall also be unlawful for any person to cause or attempt to cause an employer to discriminate against any employee in violation of the provisions of this Chapter. It shall be unlawful for any person to discharge or in any other manner discriminate against any employee covered by this Chapter because such employee has made a complaint against the employer or any other person or has instituted or caused to be instituted any proceeding under or related to this Chapter or has testified or is about to testify in any such proceedings. Any person who violates any provision of this Code section shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not to exceed $100.00. (OCGA Section 34-5-3.) FOR INFORMATION ON EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK ACT CONTACT: Georgia Department of Labor Office of Equal Opportunity 148 Andrew Young International Blvd., N. E. Atlanta, Georgia 30303-1751 FOR ADDITIONAL POSTERS PHONE: (404) 232-3392 POST IN PROMINENT PLACE AS REQUIRED BY LAW Georgia Department of Labor Mark Butler, Commissioner DOL-4107 (R-2/11) An Equal Opportunity Employer/Program