HRS §387-4
Wage discrimination prohibited
This law bans employers from paying different wages because of race, religion, or sex. It allows pay differences for real reasons like seniority, different duties, or shift times. If an employer is paying unfairly, they must raise the underpaid worker's pay, not lower anyone else's.
employers
The statute, as written — Wage discrimination prohibited
No employer shall discriminate in any way in the payment of wages as between persons of different races or religions or as between the sexes; provided that nothing herein shall prohibit a variation of rates of pay for employees engaged in the same classification of work based upon a difference in seniority, length of service, substantial difference in duties or services performed, difference in the shift or time of day worked, or hours of work; and provided that an employer who is paying a wage rate differential in violation of this section shall not, in order to comply with this section, reduce the wage rate of any employee.
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