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Seyfarth Synopsis: In the Woodward case, Justice Sisitsky of the Massachusetts Superior Court issued an outright win for employers in the first decision to apply the affirmative defense of the Massachusetts Equal Pay Act...more
Employers take note! The Maryland General Assembly’s 2024 session resulted in new laws aimed at increasing transparency for both current and prospective employees regarding employee wages. These new laws require employers to...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: One issue that has consistently divided the federal courts is whether an equal pay plaintiff can establish a prima faciecase of wage discrimination by pointing to a single comparator of the opposite sex who...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Colorado has adopted final Equal Pay Transparency Rules which, along with the underlying equal pay law amendments, will become effective January 1, 2024....more
The UK Government has introduced draft regulations to preserve in domestic law certain discrimination rights and principles derived from EU law which might otherwise fall away or be departed from following the Retained EU Law...more
Last week, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the US Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to encourage enhanced law enforcement and greater...more
The first of the year brought with it new pay transparency obligations for employers in several states, including Rhode Island, California, and Washington. Halfway through the year, this type of legislation remains a focus...more
As previously reported here, California law requires private employers of 100 or more employees and/or 100 or more workers hired through labor contractors to annually report pay, demographic, and other workforce data to the...more
Federal and state wage and hour litigation has been an area of concentration for Industrial/Organizational Psychologists for decades. These cases address alleged discrimination in wage-based employment practices such as...more
OFCCP issued yet another notice today regarding its handling of a FOIA request for production of all federal contractors’ EEO-1 Type 2 data from 2016 through 2020. The request keeps in place a February 17, 2023, deadline...more
Over the past several years, Connecticut’s legislature has enacted some significant employment laws that have re-shaped the workplace and posed new challenges for Connecticut employers. The 2023 legislative session that began...more
Just prior to the New Year, the California Labor Commissioner’s Office released updated Frequently Asked Questions (“FAQs”), which clarified the California Equal Pay Act’s pay scale disclosure requirements that were effective...more
On November 30, 2022, the State of Washington issued its Administrative Policy for the state’s Equal Pay and Opportunities Act. The law, which is meant to prevent discrimination and promote pay equity for workers, takes...more
Every so often, a “tsunami” law comes crashing in. SB 1162, the new California pay transparency law, is sweeping in with substantial changes to the employment landscape. So significant, that employers who have just one...more
Recently, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 1162 into law. It is now one of the most aggressive pay equity laws in the country. Effective January 1, 2023, organizations around the country will have sweeping new...more
Seemingly with every passing day the California legislature adds more obligations (and opportunities for costly missteps) to California employers. This time we are discussing California Senate Bill 1162, dubbed California’s...more
On September 27, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom approved SB 1162 to significantly expand the pay reporting and pay scale requirements for California employers. These requirements are effective January 1, 2023....more
Pay transparency laws have gathered steam across the country. California follows Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, Nevada, Rhode Island, Washington, New York City, Cincinnati, and Toledo, among other jurisdictions, in enacting...more
Federal contractors should be aware of a recent development that could result in the public disclosure of their EEO-1 information. The EEO-1 Component 1 report is a mandatory annual data collection requiring all federal...more