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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 68
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 1721
Referred to Committee on LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES
Introduced by:
SEN. BERGSTEIN, 36th Dist.
AN ACT ESTABLISHING WOMEN'S ECONOMIC EQUALITY.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That the general statutes be amended to establish economic equality 1
for women by: (1) Requiring paid family and medical leave; (2) 2
increasing the minimum wage to fifteen dollars per hour by 2021; (3) 3
extending required sexual harassment prevention training to 4
companies with fewer than twenty employees, and requiring all such 5
training to be conducted annually regardless of the number of 6
employees; (4) requiring equal pay for equal work, establishing 7
standards for employees to prove unequal pay, establishing a 8
presumption that employers are in compliance with equal pay 9
standards if they conduct regular pay audits to ensure equal pay for 10
equal work; and (5) providing that each private and public employer 11
have a minimum of ten per cent of women on their board of directors 12
by 2021, and thirty per cent of women on such boards by 2023. 13
Statement of Purpose:
To establish economic equality for women.