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The primary objective of a proactive pay equity analysis is to identify and remediate pay disparities and prevent future ones. In contrast, the primary objective of a reactive pay equity analysis is to address immediate...more
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the latest of many jurisdictions—including neighboring Vermont as well as Minnesota—to adopt new laws promoting pay equity....more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Beginning on January 1, 2025, Illinois will join the list of states that are requiring greater transparency in both the job opportunities available in the state as well as the pay for those jobs. The...more
On July 31, 2024, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed into law the “Frances Perkins Workplace Equity Act” (H.4890 or the “Act”). The legislature drafted this new act to enhance wage equity and transparency across the...more
On August 20, 2024, Western District of Washington Judge John H. Chun asked the Washington Supreme Court to answer the question of what a party must prove to be considered a “job applicant” for the purposes of a pay...more
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
This week, we’re looking at recent state-level changes and legal trends that have varying degrees of impact on employers. Massachusetts Pay Equity Law Massachusetts is the most recent state to enact a pay equity law. The...more
On July 24, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed a decision from the District of New Jersey Court, refusing to block New Jersey’s 2023 law, which awards temporary workers equal pay and...more
In our second and previous installment of our summer blog series contrasting "expert” versus ”robot” approaches to conducting a pay-equity study, we described how the more traditional, consultant-led approaches (i.e., expert)...more
In our first installment of our summer blog series contrasting "expert” versus ”robot” approaches to conducting a pay-equity study, we described how the more traditional, consultant-led approaches (i.e., expert) differ from...more
After an extended legislative process, pay transparency requirements are coming for Massachusetts employers. On July 24, 2024, the Massachusetts House and Senate passed a bill requiring employers with over 25 or more...more
Series Introduction - Earlier this year DCI experts and co-authors of this post, Lisa Harpe and Don Lustenberger, hosted a pay-equity webinar on the topic of “expert vs. robot.” They contrasted the more conventional...more
Minnesota employers should be aware of several new employment laws that were included in the Omnibus Labor and Industry Policy bill and Omnibus Tax bill that were signed into law at the end of May, just before the close of...more
Snapchat’s parent company has agreed to pay $15 million and take extensive measures to ensure fair employment practices as part of settlement to resolve claims of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation against women at...more
Executive Summary: Washington, D.C. and Maryland recently enacted pay transparency and wage history laws. In passing these laws, the two jurisdictions join a growing number of states including California, Colorado, Illinois,...more
This is Part VIII of our “Pay Equity Deep Dive Series.” Part I focused on Compensation Philosophy Review and Pay Analysis Group formation and testing. Part II focused on Wage Influencing Factors (WIFs) and Reliability and...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
Maryland is the latest state to jump on the pay transparency bandwagon after Gov. Wes Moore signed new “wage range” requirements into law last month. Beginning October 1, Maryland employers must include salary and benefits...more
In a unanimous decision, on May 15, 2024, the New Jersey Supreme Court held that the state’s amendments (Chapter 212) to the Wage Payment Law (WPL) and the Wage and Hour Law (WHL) apply prospectively, and therefore plaintiffs...more
Poland and other EU countries will have to implement the principles of equal pay and transparency into their laws by June 7, 2026, to comply with Directive (EU) 2023/970 of the European Parliament and Council of May 10, 2023,...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Maryland Governor Wes Moore has signed into law a bill that will expand Maryland employers’ pay transparency obligations. Effective October 1, 2024, employers must disclose in public or internal job...more
Maryland has been the latest domino to fall in a surge of recent state and local wage transparency legislation across the United States. With at least eight states now requiring employers to post compensation ranges along...more
In its seminal decision, Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, the Supreme Court held that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity is tantamount to discrimination on the basis of sex. Employers are...more
With the deadline for gender pay gap reporting in the UK having just passed in early April, we explore some of the broader pay gap reporting, pay equity and pay transparency developments, and predict how these wider external...more