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LA County Fair Chance Ordinance takes effect today. Here's what you need to know.

Big changes are in store. In an effort to further promote fair hiring practices, Los Angeles County adopted a new Fair Chance Ordinance for the unincorporated areas of the County. This ordinance, which takes effect today,...more

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New Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance Imposes Obligations on Employers

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Starting September 3, 2024, employers must comply with involved new requirements if they wish to consider criminal backgrounds in making hiring or promotional decisions for positions that will perform work in any...more

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County of Los Angeles Enacts Fair Chance Ordinance New Hiring Requirements for Employers

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What is this about? On February 27, 2024, the County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors voted to adopt the County’s Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers (FCO). The FCO aligns with the California Fair Chance Act (FCA),...more

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Employers Face Onerous Compliance Obligations Under the New Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance

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Effective September 3, 2024, employers with locations or employees (including remote workers) in the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County (ULAC) will be subject to a new Fair Chance Ordinance. To say that the new...more

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Salary History Ban Set to Take Effect in Columbus

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Starting on March 1, 2024, Columbus will join over 40 states, counties, and cities, including Cincinnati and Toledo, in prohibiting employers from asking applicants about wage rates or salary history. The Columbus ordinance’s...more

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New Pennsylvania Legislation and Philadelphia Ordinance Amendment Tackle Pardoned Convictions, Expunged Records, and Negligent...

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Pennsylvania and Philadelphia recently enacted changes that impact employer criminal background screening. ...more

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NYC Set to Enforce Law to Regulate Use of Automated Hiring Tools Starting July 5

New York City will begin enforcing the New York City Automated Employment Decision Tools (“AEDT”) Law, on July 5, 2023, delaying the previously announced enforcement date of April 15. On April 6, 2023, after two sets of...more

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2022 Roundup: New York Employment Law Legislation

New York City’s Salary Transparency Act Arguably the most impactful piece of legislation passed in 2022 is New York City’s Salary Transparency Act, which makes it an unlawful discriminatory practice for an employer to...more

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Pay Transparency Laws Proliferate in New York

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New York State - On June 3, 2022, the New York State Legislature passed Senate Bill 4927, which if enacted would require employers to include a salary range and position description in each job advertisement. The statewide...more

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2021 Employment Law Spotlight: New York

President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will be sworn in on January 20, 2021, signaling the official change in administration. Employers can certainly expect to see a shift in the direction...more

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Update #2: Waterloo, Iowa Enacts Ban the Box Restrictions

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Seyfarth Synopsis:  Waterloo, Iowa has enacted the state’s first “Ban the Box” Ordinance. UPDATE #2:  On April 3, 2020, the lawsuit brought by the Iowa Association of Business and Industry (the “Association”) against the...more

Orrick - Equal Pay Pulse

Pay Equity Developments in the Mid-Atlantic

The past month has brought notable pay equity developments to the Mid-Atlantic, including pending legislation in Maryland, and a Third Circuit decision that might have far-reaching effects beyond the Philadelphia salary...more

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Third Circuit Reinstates Philadelphia’s Salary History Inquiry Ban

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On February 6, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld the Philadelphia Wage Equity Ordinance (“Ordinance”) by reactivating the Ordinance’s prohibition on employer inquiries into an applicant’s salary...more

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When Hiring For Jobs Located In Philadelphia, Salary History Will Soon Be Off Limits Unless Voluntarily and Willingly Disclosed

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The United States Court of Appeal for the Third Circuit has issued its decision upholding the Philadelphia Wage Equity Ordinance, one of the so-called “salary history ban” laws....more

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Employment Flash - February 2020

This edition of Employment Flash looks at recent NLRB activity, including its decision (overruling an Obama-era decision) regarding confidentiality rules for employees during ongoing workplace investigations. We also discuss...more

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New Year, New Local Ban-the-Box Restrictions on Background Checks

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With the start of a new year—and a new decade—employers in San Francisco, California, Waterloo, Iowa, and Grand Rapids, Michigan, must follow new “ban-the-box” laws restricting their use of criminal records in hiring and...more

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Maryland Enacts a Statewide “Ban-the-Box” Law

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During the 2019 legislative session, Governor Larry Hogan vetoed the Criminal Records Screening (or “Ban-the-Box”) Act. On January 30, 2020, however, the Maryland General Assembly overrode the governor’s veto, making it...more

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New York Releases FAQs on Statewide Salary History Ban

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Changes to New York state law that prohibit employer inquiries into the salary history of applicants and employees took effect on January 6, 2020.  Recently, the New York Department of Labor released a series of Frequently...more

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Updated Mandatory Notice for San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

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Seyfarth Synopsis: The San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance (the “FCO”), which was amended as of October 1, 2018, has long required that covered employers provide employees with the Office of Labor Standards Enforcement’s...more

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Mark Your Calendars, New York Employers: A Look at the 2020 Effective Dates for Employment-Related Legislation

2019 brought a number of important changes in the law that warrant the attention of New York employers. Start off the new year right and ensure your calendars are up to date by including the 2020 effective dates of these New...more

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The Time Is Now for Employers in Illinois to Abide by New Laws

The New Year brings new laws for Illinois employers. Some laws go into effect this Summer, while others are effective as of this month. For employers who have not yet revised handbooks, policies and agreements, the time is...more

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Waterloo, Iowa Enacts Ban the Box Restrictions

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Waterloo, Iowa has enacted the state’s first “Ban the Box” Ordinance....more

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California Employers Watch Out! Legal Minefields for Background Checks

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Seyfarth Synopsis: California’s ban-the-box law strictly regulates how employers may obtain and consider background check information when hiring and making personnel decisions. What’s more, Los Angeles and San Francisco have...more

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Keeping Compliant with Expanding State and Local Equal Pay Laws

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Since 2016, hundreds of bills and dozens of new laws aimed at closing the pay gap have been introduced and enacted at both the state and local levels.  These laws include jurisdiction-specific pay equity laws, salary history...more

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Toledo, Ohio Passes Ban on Salary History Inquiries

Toledo, Ohio is the latest jurisdiction (and the second city in Ohio) to enact a law that will prohibit employers from asking job applicants about salary history....more

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