SACRAMENTO >> Just as California businesses begin to implement a law requiring equal pay for workers regardless of their gender, already the toughest of its kind in the nation, a state lawmaker is seeking to expand it to protect employees from racial discrimination.
The proposal by Sen. Isadore Hall would build on California's existing fair pay law by adding "race or ethnicity" to the requirement that employers justify any pay discrepancies between men and women who do "substantially similar" work.
