Common use of PAY EQUITY Clause in Contracts

PAY EQUITY. The Contractor agrees to ensure that “similarly employed” individuals in its workforce are compensated as equals, consistent with the following: 32.1. Employees are “similarly employed” if the individuals work for the same employer, the performance of the job requires comparable skill, effort, and responsibility, and the jobs are performed under similar working conditions. Job titles alone are not determinative of whether employees are similarly employed; 32.2. Grantee may allow differentials in compensation for its workers if the differentials are based in good faith and on any of the following: 32.2.1. A seniority system; a merit system; a system that measures earnings by quantity or quality of production; a bona fide job-related factor or factors; or a bona fide regional difference in compensation levels. 32.2.2. A bona fide job-related factor or factors may include, but not be limited to, education, training, or experience that is: consistent with business necessity; not based on or derived from a gender-based differential; and accounts for the entire differential. 32.2.3. A bona fide regional difference in compensation level must be: consistent with business necessity; not based on or derived from a gender-based differential; and account for the entire differential.

PAY EQUITY. ‌ The Contractor agrees to ensure that “similarly employed” individuals in its workforce are compensated as equals, consistent with the following: 32.1. A. Employees are “similarly employed” if the individuals work for the same employer, the performance of the job requires comparable skill, effort, and responsibility, and the jobs are performed under similar working conditions. Job titles alone are not determinative of whether employees are similarly employed; 32.2. Grantee B. Contractor may allow differentials in compensation for its workers if the differentials are based in good faith and on any of the following: 32.2.1. i. A seniority system; a merit system; a system that measures earnings by quantity or quality of production; a bona fide job-related factor or factors; or a bona fide regional difference in compensation levels. 32.2.2ii. A bona fide job-related factor or factors may include, but not be limited to, education, training, or experience that is: consistent Consistent with business necessity; not based on or derived from a gender-based differential; and accounts for the entire differential. 32.2.3iii. A bona fide regional difference in compensation level must be: consistent Consistent with business necessity; not based on or derived from a gender-based differential; and account for the entire differential.