text: Makes it harder for employers to satisfy the “bona fide factor other than sex” defense when they want to provide reasons to support their decisions to pay different wages to employees engaged in “substantially similar work.”
  Requires equal pay for all employees who perform “substantially similar work” as it relates to skill, effort and responsibility, and that includes benefits and other forms of compensation.
  The California Fair Pay Act, signed by Gov. Jerry Brown in 2015, requires employees to be paid equally for the job they’re doing based on: