On October 6, 2015, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law SB358, which amends Labor Code Section 1197.5, California’s existing gender pay equality law.1 Most of the previous statute remains intact, but the amendments, while few, may transform gender pay discrimination into the employment lawsuit du jour in California for years to come.

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California and federal law already prohibit employers from paying a worker of one sex less than the opposite sex for the same job by requiring equal pay for equal work. The new law...