SENATE DOCKET, NO. 687        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 689

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act further defining comparable work..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1.Chapter 149 of the General Laws, as most recently amended, is hereby further amended by inserting after the first sentence of section 105A the following section:—

In any action brought under this section, the comparability of two positions shall be solely based on whether the two positions entail comparable skill, effort, responsibility and working conditions between employees of the opposite sex.