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<section article="gle" article_name="Labor and Employment" number="3-301" title_number="3" title_name="Employment Standards and Conditions" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Equal Pay for Equal Work">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Employer” means:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a person engaged in a business, industry, profession, trade, or other enterprise in the State;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the State and its units;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>a county and its units; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>a municipal government in the State.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Employer” includes a person who acts directly or indirectly in the interest of another employer with an employee.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Gender identity” has the meaning stated in § 20–101 of the State Government Article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Posting” means a solicitation intended to recruit applicants for a specific available position, including recruitment done directly by an employer or indirectly through a third party.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Wage” means all compensation for employment.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Wage” includes board, lodging, or other advantage provided to an employee for the convenience of the employer.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Wage range” means the minimum and maximum hourly rate or minimum and maximum salary for a position, set in good faith by reference, to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>any applicable pay scale;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>any previously determined minimum and maximum hourly rate or minimum and maximum salary for the position;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the minimum and maximum hourly rate or minimum and maximum salary of an individual holding a comparable position at the time of the posting; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>the budgeted amount for the position.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
