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Union Calendar No. 502 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1338 
[Report No. 110–783] 
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effective 
remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the 
basis of sex, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 6, 2007 
Ms. DELAURO (for herself, Mr. HALL of New York, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. LARSON 
of Connecticut, Ms. DEGETTE, Ms. BORDALLO, Mr. SKELTON, Mr. 
HONDA, Ms. BERKLEY, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. DOYLE, Mr. KILDEE, Mr. 
BOSWELL, Ms. CARSON, Mr. FILNER, Mr. OBERSTAR, Mr. WYNN, Ms. 
ESHOO, Mr. PRICE of North Carolina, Ms. SCHWARTZ, Mrs. MALONEY 
of New York, Mrs. CAPPS, Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. GEORGE MILLER of Cali-
fornia, Mr. BUTTERFIELD, Mr. MORAN of Virginia, Mr. LANTOS, Ms. 
WOOLSEY, Ms. NORTON, Mr. DINGELL, Ms. MCCOLLUM of Minnesota, 
Mr. DOGGETT, Mr. OBEY, Mr. MOORE of Kansas, Ms. KILPATRICK, Mr. 
DEFAZIO, Mr. BERMAN, Ms. ZOE
LOFGREN
of California, Mrs. 
CHRISTENSEN, Mr. ALLEN, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. KEN-
NEDY, Mr. RYAN of Ohio, Mr. BACA, Ms. SOLIS, Mr. ELLISON, Mrs. 
MCCARTHY of New York, and Mr. GRIJALVA) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor 
JULY 28, 2008 
Additional sponsors: Mr. ETHERIDGE, Mr. WAXMAN, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. 
HOLT, Mr. WU, Ms. SLAUGHTER, Mr. SERRANO, Mr. SESTAK, Mr. 
LEWIS of Georgia, Mr. MEEKS of New York, Mr. PASTOR, Ms. BALDWIN, 
Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. FARR, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, Mrs. 
LOWEY, Ms. MATSUI, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. MCNULTY, Mr. NADLER, 
Mr. STARK, Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. WEXLER, Mr. 
LOEBSACK, Ms. SUTTON, Mr. TIERNEY, Ms. LINDA T. SA´NCHEZ of Cali-
fornia, Mr. ANDREWS, Mr. UDALL of New Mexico, Mr. AL GREEN of 
Texas, Mr. DICKS, Mr. MILLER of North Carolina, Mr. ABERCROMBIE, 
Mrs. TAUSCHER, Mr. ISRAEL, Ms. SHEA-PORTER, Ms. CLARKE, Mr. 
CROWLEY, Mr. HARE, Mr. RODRIGUEZ, Mr. SCHIFF, Mr. BISHOP of New 
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York, Mr. PAYNE, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. COURTNEY, Mr. COHEN, Mr. BRADY 
of Pennsylvania, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. SMITH of Washington, 
Mr. ENGEL, Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Mr. DELAHUNT, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, 
Mrs. JONES of Ohio, Ms. WATSON, Mr. LANGEVIN, Mr. ROTHMAN, Mrs. 
DAVIS of California, Mrs. GILLIBRAND, Mr. JACKSON of Illinois, Mr. 
WEINER, Ms. CORRINE
BROWN
of Florida, Mr. CAPUANO, Mr. 
CARNAHAN, Mr. FRANK
of Massachusetts, Mr. GUTIERREZ, Mr. 
HOLDEN, Mr. HINOJOSA, Mr. JEFFERSON, Ms. LEE, Mr. MICHAUD, Mr. 
NEAL of Massachusetts, Mr. OLVER, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, 
Mr. THOMPSON
of Mississippi, Ms. WASSERMAN
SCHULTZ, Mr. 
RUPPERSBERGER, Mr. POMEROY, Mr. CUMMINGS, Ms. HOOLEY, Mr. 
BISHOP of Georgia, Mr. CRAMER, Mr. BERRY, Mr. FATTAH, Mr. KIND, 
Mr. MARKEY, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. CHANDLER, Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas, 
Mr. BAIRD, Mr. MCNERNEY, Mr. WELCH of Vermont, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, 
Mr. YARMUTH, Mr. MEEHAN, Ms. CASTOR, Mr. TOWNS, Mr. GONZALEZ, 
Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut, Mr. ACKERMAN, Mr. THOMPSON of Cali-
fornia, Mr. RAHALL, Mr. REYES, Mr. BECERRA, Mr. EMANUEL, Mr. 
MOLLOHAN, Mr. WATT, Mr. PASCRELL, Mr. CLYBURN, Mr. CLAY, Mr. 
HASTINGS of Florida, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. RUSH, Ms. LINDA T. SA´NCHEZ 
of California, Mr. COSTELLO, Mr. ARCURI, Mr. HOYER, Mr. ROSS, Mr. 
MEEK of Florida, Mr. STUPAK, Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, Mr. MATHESON, 
Mr. INSLEE, Mr. KUCINICH, Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, Ms. HARMAN, Mr. 
DAVIS of Alabama, Mr. CLEAVER, Mr. KANJORSKI, Mr. HODES, Mr. 
HIGGINS, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. VISCLOSKY, Mr. ALTMIRE, Ms. 
HERSETH SANDLIN, Mr. PETERSON of Minnesota, Mr. MURTHA, Mr. 
PERLMUTTER, Mr. LINCOLN DAVIS of Tennessee, Mr. SCOTT of Georgia, 
Mr. SIRES, Mr. BOYD of Florida, Ms. WATERS, Mr. BRALEY of Iowa, Mr. 
FALEOMAVAEGA, Mr. COOPER, Mr. LARSEN
of Washington, Mr. 
MELANCON, Mr. SARBANES, Mr. SPRATT, Mr. KAGEN, Mr. WILSON of 
Ohio, Mr. LYNCH, Mr. EDWARDS, Mr. WALZ of Minnesota, Mr. SNYDER, 
Mr. BARROW, Ms. GIFFORDS, Mr. MAHONEY of Florida, Mr. SALAZAR, 
Mr. SPACE, Mr. MITCHELL, Mr. SHULER, Mr. LIPINSKI, Mr. CARNEY, 
Mr. ELLSWORTH, Mr. BOREN, Mr. PATRICK J. MURPHY of Pennsylvania, 
Mr. CUELLAR, Mr. ORTIZ, Mr. KLEIN of Florida, Mr. SHAYS, Mr. MCIN-
TYRE, Mr. UDALL of Colorado, Mr. MARSHALL, Mr. BOUCHER, Mr. 
CARDOZA, Ms. SPEIER, Mr. CARSON, Ms. RICHARDSON, and Ms. TSON-
GAS 
JULY 28, 2008 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 
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[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on March 6, 2007] 
A BILL 
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide 
more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in 
the payment of wages on the basis of sex, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Paycheck Fairness Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Women have entered the workforce in record 
numbers over the past 50 years. 
(2) Despite the enactment of the Equal Pay Act 
in 1963, many women continue to earn significantly 
lower pay than men for equal work. These pay dis-
parities exist in both the private and governmental 
sectors. In many instances, the pay disparities can 
only be due to continued intentional discrimination 
or the lingering effects of past discrimination. 
(3) The existence of such pay disparities— 
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(A) depresses the wages of working families 
who rely on the wages of all members of the fam-
ily to make ends meet; 
(B) undermines women’s retirement secu-
rity, which is often based on earnings while in 
the workforce; 
(C) prevents the optimum utilization of 
available labor resources; 
(D) has been spread and perpetuated, 
through commerce and the channels and instru-
mentalities of commerce, among the workers of 
the several States; 
(E) burdens commerce and the free flow of 
goods in commerce; 
(F) constitutes an unfair method of com-
petition in commerce; 
(G) leads to labor disputes burdening and 
obstructing commerce and the free flow of goods 
in commerce; 
(H) interferes with the orderly and fair 
marketing of goods in commerce; and 
(I) in many instances, may deprive workers 
of equal protection on the basis of sex in viola-
tion of the 5th and 14th amendments. 
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(4)(A) Artificial barriers to the elimination of 
discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis 
of sex continue to exist decades after the enactment of 
the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 201 
et seq.) and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 
2000a et seq.). 
(B) These barriers have resulted, in significant 
part, because the Equal Pay Act has not worked as 
Congress originally intended. Improvements and 
modifications to the law are necessary to ensure that 
the Act provides effective protection to those subject to 
pay discrimination on the basis of their sex. 
(C) Elimination of such barriers would have 
positive effects, including— 
(i) providing a solution to problems in the 
economy created by unfair pay disparities; 
(ii) substantially reducing the number of 
working women earning unfairly low wages, 
thereby reducing the dependence on public assist-
ance; 
(iii) promoting stable families by enabling 
all family members to earn a fair rate of pay; 
(iv) remedying the effects of past discrimi-
nation on the basis of sex and ensuring that in 
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the future workers are afforded equal protection 
on the basis of sex; and 
(v) ensuring equal protection pursuant to 
Congress’ power to enforce the 5th and 14th 
amendments. 
(5) The Department of Labor and the Equal 
Employment Opportunity Commission have impor-
tant and unique responsibilities to help ensure that 
women receive equal pay for equal work. 
(6) The Department of Labor is responsible for— 
(A) collecting and making publicly avail-
able information about women’s pay; 
(B) ensuring that companies receiving Fed-
eral contracts comply with anti-discrimination 
affirmative action requirements of Executive 
Order 11246 (relating to equal employment op-
portunity); 
(C) disseminating information about wom-
en’s rights in the workplace; 
(D) helping women who have been victims 
of pay discrimination obtain a remedy; and 
(E) being proactive in investigating and 
prosecuting equal pay violations, especially sys-
temic violations, and in enforcing all of its man-
dates. 
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