STATUS: Enacted

Repeal of exception to wage sharing protections, thereby providing protections to all employees who share or discuss their wages.

Existing law provided that it is a discriminatory and unfair labor practice for an employer to discharge, discipline, discriminate against, coerce, intimidate, threaten, or interfere with any employee or other person because the employee inquired about, disclosed, compared, or otherwise discussed the employee’s wages, unless otherwise permitted by federal law. Federal law exempts certain limited classes of employers from labor laws. This law strikes the reference to that exemption and extends the law to those classes of employers, thereby providing wage transparency protections to all employees.

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