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The transparency for job seekers is nice but I think the best parts of this law are those:

- Right to information for employees – Workers will have the right to request information from their employer on their individual pay level and on the average pay levels, broken down by sex, for categories of workers doing the same work or work of equal value.

- Reporting on gender pay gap – Employers with at least 250 employees must publish information on the pay gap between female and male workers in their organisation. For internal purposes, they should also provide information on the pay gap between female and male employees by categories of workers doing the same work or work of equal value.

Being able to compare your salary to the average in your company for the same job will be a real game changer.

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Myself and another employee may have the same exact title, but the other employee is doing much better and much more work due to their ability. It's not fair for me to get paid the same since I'm not doing equal work. Since the value of the work is subjective from the bosses perspective, these rules have no meaning and are easily worked around.

I fail to see your point. The law is not mandating equal pay, just transparency on the average salary for people doing the same work (which is trivial to establish in any large corporations where job descriptions are somewhat standardised). Obviously it’s not going to change much in a company where only two people do the same job but that’s not the work environment of most employees.

Many school don’t give out ranks on individual students, because this hurts feelings.

When the salary is public, most company will do equal pay to avoid hurting people feelings

I wonder how it works for positions of fame.

Actors/actresses get paid based on public demand.

Same thing with sports. Women's teams don't drive the eye balls or ad revenue, typically. Are they to be paid the same as male counterparts if part of the same org?

They aren't employed.

A few years ago my company went through an exercise of making sure that everyone in a similar job made the same amount of money and females made the same amount as men. I ended up getting a $15k salary bump out of it. My company would be fine with this requirement. If every company did the same exercise then nobody would have cause to complain about it.

The problem with this is that mediocre employees getting rewarded, while the better one will seek oppprtunity else where. Over time, company practising will be less competitive and accumulating mediocre employees. I've been in HR for multiple companies over couple decades and seen these subtlely happening. Equality in pay has similar effect like communism where everybody is equal but poor whereas the poorest in competitive market is richer. It is better for a company to have intrinsic culture to always reward people for performance and not based on equality, gender and race.

Interesting observation! Reading this , I felt this happened where I work. The extra reward for going beyond the job description , role expectations was reduced and people began to work with a 'coasting' mentality. do you have any more sources - studies , papers or even blogs on this?

Sure this is a game changer.

Company will be less willing to pay differently. Depends on how good you are in the team and how good your managers evaluating performance, this can be good or bad thing.

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