PENNSYLVANIA, July 21 - to section 6 of the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act (Act of

June 25, 1938, as amended)].

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(e.1) The term "wages" includes all earnings of an employe,

regardless of whether determined on time, task, piece,

commission or other method of calculation, including salaries

based on annual or other basis. The term "wages" also includes

fringe benefits, wage supplements or other compensation, whether

payable by the employer from funds of the employer or from

amounts withheld from the employe's pay by the employer.

(e.2) The term "comparable work" shall mean work that is

substantially similar in that it requires substantially similar

skill, effort and responsibility and is performed under similar

working conditions. A job title or job description alone shall

not determine comparability.

(e.3) The term "working conditions" shall include the

circumstances customarily taken into consideration in setting

salary or wages, including, but not limited to, reasonable shift

differentials, physical surroundings and hazards encountered by

employes performing a job.

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Section 2. Section 3 of the act is amended to read:

Section 3. Wage Rates.--(a) No employer having employes

subject to any provisions of this section shall discriminate[,

within any establishment in which such employes are employed,]

between employes on the basis of sex by paying wages to employes

[in such establishment] at a rate less than the rate at which

[he] the employer pays wages to employes of the opposite sex [in

such establishment] for [equal] comparable work [on jobs, the

performance of which, requires equal skill, effort, and

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