After proposing legislation to ensure equal pay for equal work during his annual State of the City address earlier this month, Mayor Kasim Reed signed legislation Tuesday to ensuring that for all female employees of the city of Atlanta.
Reed said he supports the Obama Administration’s work to close the loopholes in the Equal Pay Act and the President’s 2009 Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which gives back to employees their day in court to challenge a pay gap.
The legislation authorizes the city’s Department of Human Resources to hire a consultant firm to research the salaries of all City employees and identify pay disparities between men and women. The study will be conducted and finalized before the end of the fiscal year in June 2015.
More than 50 years after the passage of the Equal Pay Act, women, especially minority women, continue to trail men in the workplace in compensation for their work.
Information: www.atlantaga.gov
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