{"id":813,"date":"2022-05-26T13:46:47","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T17:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eth.lnc.mybluehost.me\/eng\/?p=813"},"modified":"2022-05-26T13:46:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T17:46:55","slug":"mississippi-enacts-equal-pay-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/2022\/05\/26\/mississippi-enacts-equal-pay-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi Enacts Equal Pay Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Equal-Pay-Resized-01.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1707\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Equal-Pay-Resized-01.png 800w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Equal-Pay-Resized-01-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Equal-Pay-Resized-01-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Effective July 1, 2022, the Mississippi Equal Pay for Equal Work Act follows the liability standard of the federal Equal Pay Act, prohibiting employers from paying workers of one sex less than they pay those of the opposite sex for work that \u201crequires equal skill, education, effort and responsibility, and which is performed under similar working conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Littler:<\/em><br><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.littler.com\/publication-press\/publication\/mississippi-becomes-last-state-enact-equal-pay-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mississippi Becomes the Last State to Enact an Equal Pay Law<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effective July 1, 2022, the Mississippi Equal Pay for Equal Work Act follows the liability standard of the federal Equal Pay Act, prohibiting employers from paying workers of one sex less than they pay those of the opposite sex for work that \u201crequires equal skill, education, effort and responsibility, and which is performed under similar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1937,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions\/1937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}