HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1979.

Approved May 14, 1979.

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(Senate Bill 246)

AN ACT concerning

Labor - Equal Pay for Equal Work

FOR the purpose of changing the definition of "employer"
under the Maryland Equal Pay for Equal Work Law to
include any "employer" under the Federal Equal Pay Act
of 1963.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 100 - Work, Labor and Employment

Section 55B(b)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1964 Replacement Volume and 1978 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 100 - Work, Labor and Employment

55B.

(b) "Employer" includes any person, natural or
artificial, acting directly or indirectly in the interest of
any employer in relations with an employee and shall include
the State, county and municipal governments and their
subdivisions[, but shall not include any employer covered by
the federal Equal Pay Act of 1963].

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1979.

Approved May 14, 1979.

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