The California Equal Pay Act has prohibited an employer from paying its employees less than employees of the opposite sex for equal work. Fill out and submit the "Equal Pay Act Complaint" Form (EPA ‐1).Please read the following Instructions to ensure that you are completing the Form correctly. San Diego requires all contractors doing business with the city to pay employees equal rates for equal or substantially similar work. If you haven't received equal pay for the work you did, our San Diego equal pay attorney will help you pursue fair compensation through a lawsuit. The Equal Pay Act requires that men and women in the same workplace be given equal pay for equal work. FEL specializes in equal pay cases. If you feel that you are not being paid equally, reach out to FEL today for a free consultation at (619) 306-1454. Under the new law, employees who perform "substantially similar work" must be paid the same amount. Labor Code §1199.5, employers cannot reduce the salaries of male workers in order to alleviate a gender wage gap.