Discrimination on the basis of sex prohibited
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Hill v. City of Pine Bluff (2012)
Most recently applied in Brown v. United Parcel Service, Inc. (October 2017)
Acts 1977, No. 282, §§ 1, 2; A.S.A. 1947, §§ 81-333, 81-334.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) Every employer in the state shall pay employees equal compensation for equal services, and no employer shall discriminate against any employee in the matter of wages or compensation solely on the basis of the sex of the employee.
(2) An employer who violates or fails to comply with the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor, and each day that the violation or failure to comply continues shall be a separate offense.
Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.