Employer not to pay female lower wage
An employer cannot pay a female worker less than a male worker for doing the same job at the same workplace. However, different pay is allowed if it is based on things like seniority, skill, duties, shift worked, or other fair reasons that have nothing to do with being male or female.
290.410. Employer not to pay female lower wage. — any other of the law, no employer shall pay any female in his employ at wage rates less than the wage rates paid to male employees in the same for the same quantity and quality of the same of work, provided that nothing herein shall prohibit a variation of rates of pay for male and female employees engaged in the same classification of work based upon a difference in , length of , ability, skill, difference in duties or services performed, difference in the shift or time of day worked, hours of work, or or prohibitions on lifting or moving objects in excess of specified weight, or other reasonable differentiation, or factors other than sex, when exercised .
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Source & history notes
(L. 1963 p. 416 § 2)
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