Section EMP.03.09 — Equal Pay

(a) The Mohican Nation shall not discriminate between employees on the basis of sex by paying wages to employees at a rate less than the rate at which it pays wages to employees of the opposite sex for equal work on jobs the performance of which requires equal skill effort and responsibility and which are performed under similar working conditions EXCEPT where such payment is made pursuant to:

(1) a seniority system,

(2) a merit system, or

(3) a system which measures earnings by quantity or quality of production or a differential based on any other factor other than sex;

(b) Salary reductions by the employer shall not be permitted to remedy inequities in violation of this section under this section.