pay discrimination
Unfair compensation disparity
Pay discrimination is the practice of paying employees differently for equivalent work based on protected characteristics such as sex, race, or age rather than job performance or qualifications.
The term appears most often in legal and workplace contexts: She filed a complaint alleging pay discrimination.
Related concepts include the gender pay gap and equal pay laws designed to address such disparities.
- wage gapDisparity in earnings
- gender pay gapIncome inequality between sexes
- unequal payDifferent compensation for similar work
- gender biasPrejudice based on sex
- glass ceilingUnacknowledged limit blocking advancement
pink collar · unfair · lawsuit · class action · Title VII · inequality · workplace · sexism · earnings · compensation · back pay · women · equal work · wage theft · grievance · paycheck · underpaid · labor
- discrimination lawnondiscrimination, gender bias, equal pay act, disparate impact, EEOC
- pay equityequal pay, pay equity, pay equality, pay parity, wage equity
- pay inequalitypay gap, wage gap, gender pay gap, pay disparity, wage disparity
- wage lawsminimum wage, fair wages, overtime pay, overtime rules, FLSA
- labor abusewage theft, unpaid wages, unpaid overtime, worker exploitation, withheld wages
- wageswage, salary, pay, paycheck, income
pay discriminationpay equity
Equal pay for equal work
equal pay · wage equality · fair compensation · pay parity · merit-based pay
discrimination, paying, payable, payment, payments, payers, payees, repaying, repayment