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Are You Ready for New Illinois Pay Transparency Rules? A Compliance Blueprint for Employers

Fisher Phillips on 10/31/2024

Illinois employers will soon be required to reveal salary information in job postings, thanks to a new law that will take effect on January 1. Amendments to the Illinois Equal Pay Act will require covered organizations to...more

New Pay Transparency Requirements for Illinois Employers On the Horizon for 2025

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 9/5/2024

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

Much Needed Clarity May Finally Be Coming on Who Qualifies as a Job Applicant Under the Washington Equal Pay and Opportunities Act

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 8/27/2024

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

Important Colorado Law Changes for Multi-State Employers

Lathrop GPM on 1/11/2024

Employers should be aware of Colorado law changes that may impact their job postings and other practices, including some changes that are likely a welcome roll-back of some prior requirements. On January 1, 2024, the...more

Illinois Passes New Pay Transparency Law That Will Require Pay Info In Job Postings: Your Compliance Blueprint

Fisher Phillips on 8/30/2023

Illinois employers will be required to reveal salary information in job postings thanks to a new law that was just finalized by the governor. On August 11, Governor Pritzker passed into law amendments to the Illinois Equal...more

Illinois Employers Must Act to Comply With New Equitable Employment Laws

Fox Rothschild LLP on 7/12/2023

Since Gov. J. B. Pritzker signed Senate Bill 1480 (the Act) on March 23, 2021, the standards for employers have been raised for both hiring and employment practices. The Act incorporated significant changes to the Illinois...more

New Illinois Equal Pay Bill Would Require More Transparent Job Postings: 4 Things Employers Need to Know

Fisher Phillips on 4/28/2023

The Illinois Equal Pay Act has been around for a decade, but it’s seen many changes in the past few years. The act was amended in 2021 to impose new equal pay compliance requirements and create new obligations for private...more

[Webinar] Pay Transparency: Employer Requirements and Proactive Strategies - April 5th, 8:00 am - 9:00 am PDT

Miller Nash LLP on 3/9/2023

Across the country, pay transparency is an escalating priority for today’s workforce and lawmakers. In both Washington and Oregon—where we have laws targeting equal pay—new compliance requirements and strategies are driving...more

California Labor Commissioner Issues FAQs Clarifying Pay Transparency Law

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 1/17/2023

As we previously reported here last fall, California enacted a pay transparency law (SB 1162) requiring employers with 15 or more employees to disclose pay scales in job postings beginning January 1, 2023. The Labor...more

California Provides Some (But Not Much) Guidance on New Pay Scale Disclosure Requirement: 6 Key Takeaways for Employers

Fisher Phillips on 12/29/2022

California officials recently updated their Equal Pay Act FAQs to answer a handful of questions about the state’s new pay transparency requirement for job postings — which goes into effect on January 1. But California...more

Illinois Amends Human Rights Act, Business Corporation Act, and Equal Pay Act

Stokes Wagner on 4/16/2021

On March 23, 2021, Governor J.B. Pritzker signed SB 1480 into law, amending three state statutes. First, the Illinois Human Rights Act is amended to impose employer obligations when making employment decisions based on...more

What Employers Need to Know About Colorado’s New Equal Pay Act

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 12/10/2020

Employers operating, even on a limited basis, in Colorado should be aware of Colorado’s recent wage disparity and discrimination bill, which takes effect in 2021 and imposes widespread requirements related to record-keeping,...more

Hiring? Recent Amendments to Equal Pay for Equal Work Act Impose New Limits on Employers

PilieroMazza PLLC on 12/8/2020

Almost thirty years ago, Maryland’s General Assembly passed the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (Act), imposing an obligation on Maryland employers to pay employees equal amounts for the same work, regardless of the employee’s...more

Equal Pay Day 2020: Seyfarth’s Release of Equal Pay Resources

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 3/31/2020

Seyfarth Synopsis: On Equal Pay Day 2020, Seyfarth’s Pay Equity Group is pleased to release two reference guides: its Fourth Annual 50-State Pay Equity Desktop Reference and 2020 Developments in Pay Litigation Report. ...more

California Employment Law Notes - March 2020

Proskauer - California Employment Law on 3/17/2020

Time Spent By Employees In Exit Searches Is Compensable - Frlekin v. Apple Inc., 2020 WL 727813 (Cal. S. Ct. 2020) - In this opinion, the California Supreme Court answered a question certified to it by the United...more

Illinois Equal Pay Act Mandates To Take Effect September 29

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 9/30/2019

Amendments to Illinois’ Equal Pay Act (EPA) go into effect on September 29, 2019, leaving employers little time to adjust their hiring practices. No Inquiries into Salary History. Under the amended EPA, employers and...more

New York Enacts Various New Employment Laws

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 8/20/2019

• The New York State Equal Pay Act (EPA) now will apply to all protected categories (including race, national origin, religion, etc.) rather than just gender, dramatically expanding the reach of the statute. • New York...more

Illinois Amends Equal Pay Act And Adds Ban On Pay History Inquiries

Husch Blackwell LLP on 8/20/2019

Key Points: Illinois amended the Equal Pay Act to protect job applicants by banning inquiries into salary and wage history information. The Act also protects employees’ rights to disclose, and otherwise exercise their...more

Illinois Amends Equal Pay Act to Prohibit Questions About Salary History

Polsinelli on 8/19/2019

Recently, Illinois amended its Equal Pay Act to include a ban on salary-history inquiries, with the stated goal of reducing gender pay inequities. Specifically, the amendments prohibit employers from asking questions...more

Illinois Governor Signs Changes to State Equal Pay Act Including Salary History Ban

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 8/15/2019

As we previously reported, the Illinois legislature passed House Bill 834 and Governor J. B. Pritzker signed the bill into law. It will become effective September 29, 2019. The new law prohibits employers from requesting or...more

Illinois Amends Equal Pay Act – What Employers Need to Know

Vedder Price on 8/12/2019

On July 31, 2019, Governor Pritzker signed into law Public Act 101-0177, which, for the second time this year, amends the Illinois Equal Pay Act of 2003 (“IEPA”).1 The most recent amendments are consistent with trends seen in...more

New Jersey Passes New Salary History Ban

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 8/8/2019

New Jersey has enacted a new law prohibiting employers from seeking or relying on job applicants’ salary history. Lieutenant Governor Sheila Oliver (acting on behalf of New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy) has signed...more

Don't Show Me the Money: Illinois Employers Soon Can't Request or Consider Wage History in Hiring

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 8/7/2019

Illinois employers will have new restrictions on asking applicants about salary history or relying on that information in the hiring process following a recently signed amendment to the Illinois Equal Pay Act of 2003 (the...more

Minding the Pay Gap: What Employers Need to Know as Pay Equity Protections Widen

Littler on 8/6/2019

The pay gap – or paying women and other historically marginalized groups less for the same or substantially similar work – has increasingly been in the media spotlight. Politicians have also taken note. While there have been...more

Following A National Trend, Illinois’ Equal Pay Act Now Bars Employers From Asking Job Applicants About Their Salary History

Amundsen Davis LLC on 8/6/2019

With much fanfare, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed into law major amendments to the Illinois Equal Pay Act (IEPA) that now bar Illinois employers from asking job applicants or their prior employers about salary, wages...more

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