[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 4]
[Revised as of July 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR1620.25]

[Page 315-316]
 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
                               COMMISSION
 
PART 1620_THE EQUAL PAY ACT--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 1620.25  Equalization of rates.

    Under the express terms of the EPA, when a prohibited sex-based wage 
differential has been proved, an employer

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can come into compliance only by raising the wage rate of the lower paid 
sex. The rate-reduction provision of the EPA prohibits an employer from 
attempting to cure a violation by hiring or transferring employees to 
perform the previously lower-paid job at the lower rate. Similarly, the 
departure of the higher paid sex from positions where a violation 
occurred, leaving only members of the lower paid sex being paid equally 
among themselves, does not cure the EPA violations.