Amendments to H.R. 7 - Paycheck Fairness Act
Each stand alone amendment receives up to ten minutes of debate.
Each En Bloc amendment receives up to twenty minutes of debate.
Scott (D-VA) En Bloc #1
Beyer (D-VA), Leger Fernandez (D-NM) – Amendment No. 1 - Requires the EEOC to provide for an annual collection of compensation data from employers disaggregated by the sex, race, and national origin of employees
Newman (D-IL) - Amendment No. 2 - Requires employers to inform employees of their rights established under this act through currently required workplace posters and electronically
OcasioCortez (D-NY) – Amendment No. 3 - Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish a program to award contracts and grants for the purpose of training employers about the role that salary negotiation and other inconsistent wage setting practices can have on allowing bias to enter compensation. Specifically, the training programs will provide guidance on the structural issues and disadvantages women and people of color face. They will also assist employers in examining the impact of a range of practices on opportunities, including self-auditing to identify structural issues that allow bias and inequity to enter
compensation and internal equity among workers with similar skills, effort, responsibility and working conditions - among other things
Torres, Ritchie (D-NY) – Amendment No. 5 - Requires a review on the gender wage gap in the teenage workforce
Williams (D-GA) – Amendment No. 6 - Reestablishes the National Equal Pay Enforcement Task Force, a federal interagency task force focused on improving compliance, public education, and enforcement of equal pay laws
Miller Meeks (R-IA) [on behalf of Stefanik (R-NY)] – Amendment No. 4 - Revises the bill to provide a safe harbor for employers who conduct self-audits to identify and rectify potentially unlawful pay disparities and allows for reasonable employer defenses against trial lawyer abuses. The amendment protects prospective employees from disclosing wage history to prevent compounding pay disparities and requires further study on the causes and effects of pay disparities between men and women
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