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| 3 | 3 | LCO No. 1721 1 of 1 | |
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| 5 | 5 | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 68 | |
| 6 | 6 | January Session, 2019 | |
| 7 | 7 | LCO No. 1721 | |
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| 10 | 10 | Referred to Committee on LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES | |
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| 13 | 13 | Introduced by: | |
| 14 | 14 | SEN. BERGSTEIN, 36th Dist. | |
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| 18 | 18 | AN ACT ESTABLISHING WOMEN'S ECONOMIC EQUALITY. | |
| 19 | 19 | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General | |
| 20 | 20 | Assembly convened: | |
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| 22 | 22 | That the general statutes be amended to establish economic equality 1 | |
| 23 | 23 | for women by: (1) Requiring paid family and medical leave; (2) 2 | |
| 24 | 24 | increasing the minimum wage to fifteen dollars per hour by 2021; (3) 3 | |
| 25 | 25 | extending required sexual harassment prevention training to 4 | |
| 26 | 26 | companies with fewer than twenty employees, and requiring all such 5 | |
| 27 | 27 | training to be conducted annually regardless of the number of 6 | |
| 28 | 28 | employees; (4) requiring equal pay for equal work, establishing 7 | |
| 29 | 29 | standards for employees to prove unequal pay, establishing a 8 | |
| 30 | 30 | presumption that employers are in compliance with equal pay 9 | |
| 31 | 31 | standards if they conduct regular pay audits to ensure equal pay for 10 | |
| 32 | 32 | equal work; and (5) providing that each private and public employer 11 | |
| 33 | 33 | have a minimum of ten per cent of women on their board of directors 12 | |
| 34 | 34 | by 2021, and thirty per cent of women on such boards by 2023. 13 | |
| 35 | 35 | Statement of Purpose: | |
| 36 | 36 | To establish economic equality for women. |