Section 60-12-15 - Equal pay for equal work--Discrimination based on sex prohibited.

60-12-15. Equal pay for equal work--Discrimination based on sex prohibited. No employer may discriminate between employees on the basis of sex, by paying wages to any employee in any occupation in this state at a rate less than the rate at which the employer pays any employee of the opposite sex for comparable work on jobs which have comparable requirements relating to skill, effort, and responsibility, but not to physical strength.

Source: SL 1966, ch 64, § 1; SL 2008, ch 276, § 94.