April 16, 2015, Introduced by Senators WARREN, KNEZEK, ANANICH, HERTEL, BIEDA, GREGORY and HOPGOOD and referred to the Committee on Government Operations.
A bill to amend 1978 PA 390, entitled
"An act to regulate the time and manner of payment of wages and
fringe benefits to employees; to prescribe rights and
responsibilities of employers and employees, and the powers and
duties of the department of labor; to require keeping of records;
to provide for settlement of disputes regarding wages and fringe
benefits; to prohibit certain practices by employers; to prescribe
penalties and remedies; and to repeal certain acts and parts of
acts,"
by amending section 13a (MCL 408.483a), as added by 1982 PA 524.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 13a. (1) An employer shall not do any of the following:
(a) Require as a condition of employment nondisclosure by an
employee of his or her wages.
(b) Require an employee to sign a waiver or other document
which
that purports to deny an employee the right to disclose
his
or her wages.
(c) Discharge, formally discipline, or otherwise discriminate
against for job advancement an employee who discloses his or her
wages.
(d) Within 30 days after an employee's request, fail to
provide the employee with wage information on similarly situated
employees covering a period of up to 3 years prior to the date of
the request. The employer may redact the names of similarly
situated employees, but shall provide information about the sex and
seniority of similarly situated employees for whom wage information
is provided. As used in this subdivision:
(i) "Similarly situated employees" means employees who are
within the same job classification as the employee requesting the
information or whose duties are comparable in skill, effort,
responsibility, working conditions, and training to those of the
requesting employee.
(ii) "Wage information" includes salary and hourly wage
information as well as information about bonus pay, overtime pay,
and other forms of compensation provided by the employer.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.