[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 4]
[Revised as of July 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR1620.32]

[Page 321-322]
 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
          CHAPTER XIV--EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION
 
PART 1620_THE EQUAL PAY ACT--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 1620.32  Recordkeeping requirements.

    (a) Employers having employees subject to the Act are required to 
keep records in accordance with U.S. Department of Labor regulations 
found at 29 CFR part 516 (Records To Be Kept by Employers Under the 
FLSA). The regulations of that part are adopted herein by reference.
    (b) Every employer subject to the equal pay provisions of the Act 
shall maintain and preserve all records required by the applicable 
sections of 29 CFR part 516 and in addition, shall preserve any records 
which he makes in the regular course of his business operation which 
relate to the payment of wages, wage rates, job evaluations, job

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descriptions, merit systems, seniority systems, collective bargaining 
agreements, description of practices or other matters which describe or 
explain the basis for payment of any wage differential to employees of 
the opposite sex in the same establishment, and which may be pertinent 
to a determination whether such differential is based on a factor other 
than sex.
    (c) Each employer shall preserve for at least two years the records 
he makes of the kind described in Sec. 1620.32(b) which explain the 
basis for payment of any wage differential to employees of the opposite 
sex in the same establishment.

(Approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number 
3046-0019)

(Pub. L. 96-511, 94 Stat. 2812 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.))

[46 FR 4888, Jan. 19, 1981, as amended at 46 FR 63268, Dec. 31, 1981. 
Redesignated at 51 FR 29819, Aug. 20, 1986]