The Equal Pay Act is meant to protect against discrimination in wage or benefit payments. The idea behind the act is that men and women who perform similar work, have similar skills, and exert similar effort should not be subject to gender discrimination.

This scope of this act, however, is limited by a number of provisions. For instance, employers are not allowed to decrease payments to either sex in order to equalize pay. 

If you have questions about the Equal Pay Act, contact the Houston gender discrimination lawyers of the Ross Law Group at 800-634-8042.