Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
Second Regular Session 
HOUSE BILL NO. ____ 
Introduced by HON. LUIS RAYMUND “LRAY” F. VILLAFUERTE, JR. 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
The Constitution, Article II, Section 14, provides: 
The State recognizes the role of women in nation-building, and shall ensure the 
fundamental equality before the law of women and men. 
Wage rate differentials exist between equivalent jobs segregated by sex in 
government employment and in industries engaged in commerce or in the production 
of goods for commerce. 
The existence of such wage rate differentials depresses wages and living standards 
for employees necessary for their health and efficiency, prevents the maximum 
utilization of available labor resources, tends to cause labor disputes, and constitutes 
an unfair method of competition. 
Hence, this bill seeks to prohibit discrimination in the payment of wages on account of 
sex. 
LUIS RAYMUND “LRAY” F. VILLAFUERTE, JR. 
August 3, 2023
12:01 pm
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Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
Second Regular Session 
HOUSE BILL NO. ____ 
Introduced by HON. LUIS RAYMUND “LRAY” F. VILLAFUERTE, JR. 
AN ACT 
PROHIBITING DISCRIMINATION IN THE PAYMENT OF WAGES 
ON ACCOUNT OF SEX 
Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Philippines in 
Congress assembled: 
SECTION 1. Short Title. – This Act shall be known as the “Fair Pay Act.” 
Sec. 2. Equal Pay for Equivalent Jobs. – 
(A)
No employer having employees subject to any provision of this section shall
discriminate, within any establishment in which such employees are employed,
between employees on the basis of sex by paying wages to employees in such
establishment in a job that is dominated by employees of a particular sex at a
rate less than the rate at which the employer pays wages to employees in such
establishment in another job that is dominated by employees of the opposite
sex for work on equivalent jobs.
(B)
Nothing in paragraph (A) shall prohibit the payment of different wage rates to
employees where such payment is made pursuant to –
(1)
A seniority system;
(2)
A merit system; or
(3)
A system that measures earnings by quantity or quality of production.
(C)
The Secretary of Labor shall issue guidelines specifying criteria for determining
whether a job is dominated by employees of a particular sex. Such guidelines
shall not include a list of such jobs.
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(D)  
An employer who is paying a wage rate differential in violation of subparagraph 
(A) shall not, in order to comply with the provisions of such subparagraph, 
reduce the wage rate of any employee. 
(E)  
No labor organization or its agents representing employees of an employer 
having employees subject to any provision of this section shall cause or attempt 
to cause such an employer to discriminate against an employee in violation of 
this Act. 
(F)  
For purposes of administration and enforcement of this section, any amounts 
owing to any employee that have been withheld in violation of this Act shall be 
deemed to be unpaid minimum wages or unpaid overtime compensation under 
this section. 
(G)  
As used in this section, the term “equivalent jobs” means jobs that may be 
dissimilar, but whose requirements are equivalent, when viewed as a composite 
of skills, effort, responsibility, and working conditions. 
 
Sec. 3. Separability Clause. – If any provisions or part hereof, is held invalid or 
unconstitutional, the remainder of the law or the provision not otherwise affected shall 
remain valid and subsisting. 
 
Sec. 4. Repealing Clause. – Any law, presidential decree or issuance, executive 
order, letter of instruction, administrative order, rule or regulation contrary to or 
inconsistent with the provision of this Act is hereby repealed, modified, or amended 
accordingly. 
 
Sec. 5. Effectivity Clause. – This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its 
publication in at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation. 
 
Approved,