Nondiscrimination in Insurance Act, S. 2477: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopoly, and Business Rights, of the Committee on the Judciary, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, Second Session, on S. 2477, April 30, 1980 |
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Page 164 - No employer having employees subject to any provisions of this section shall discriminate, within any establishment in which such employees are employed, between employees on the basis of sex by paying wages to employees in such establishment at a rate less than the rate at which he pays wages to employees of the opposite sex in such establishment for equal work on jobs the performance of which requires equal skill, effort, and responsibility, and which are performed under similar working conditions...
Page 333 - ... to observe the terms of a bona fide seniority system or any bona fide employee benefit plan such as a retirement, pension, or insurance plan...
Page 212 - Disabilities caused or contributed to by pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, childbirth, and recovery therefrom are, for all job-related purposes, temporary disabilities and should be treated as such under any health or temporary disability insurance or sick leave plan available in connection with employment.
Page 216 - There is no risk from which men are protected and women are not. Likewise, there is no risk from which women are protected and men are not.
Page 211 - No Act of Congress shall be construed to invalidate, impair. or supersede any law enacted by any State for the purpose of regulating the business of insurance...
Page 42 - I am a fellow of the Society of Actuaries, a member of the American Academy of Actuaries, and senior vice president of the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Page 164 - ... limit, segregate, or classify its membership, or to classify or fail or refuse to refer for employment an individual, in any way which would deprive or tend to deprive an individual of employment opportunities, or...
Page 160 - because of sex" or "on the basis of sex" include, but are not limited to, because of or on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; and women affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions shall be treated the same for all employment-related purposes, including receipt of benefits under fringe benefit programs, as other persons not so affected but similar in their ability or inability to work, and nothing in section 703(h) of this title shall be interpreted...
Page 165 - Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, it shall not be an unlawful employment practice for an employer to apply different standards of compensation, or different terms, conditions, or privileges of employment pursuant to a bona fide seniority or merit system, or a system which measures earnings by quantity or quality of production or to employees who work in different locations, provided that such differences are not the result of an intention to discriminate because of race, color, religion,...
Page 215 - And what differentiates sex from such nonsuspect statuses as intelligence or physical disability, and aligns it with the recognized suspect criteria, is that the sex characteristic frequently bears no relation to ability to perform or contribute to society. As a result, statutory distinctions between the sexes often have the effect of invidiously relegating the entire class of females to inferior legal status without regard to the actual capabilities of its individual members.