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New York City’s pay transparency law, which went into effect September 2023, has been the subject of employer scrutiny in regard to compliance. The law requires employers to provide “good faith” salary ranges on job postings....more
Maryland is set to update its pay transparency law to require employers to provide salary ranges on job postings. The bill (HB 649) was passed by the Senate March 29 after the House passed it March 15. If signed by Gov. Wes...more
Maryland is seeking to become the latest jurisdiction to require companies to disclose pay in job postings. On March 29, 2024, the Maryland Senate approved House Bill 649, Labor and Employment – Equal Pay for Equal Work –...more
For Colorado employers of all sizes, the last five years have proven the truth of the adage that “the only constant is change.” Starting in 2019 with the signing of a ground-breaking pay transparency law, the Equal Pay for...more
Pay transparency is coming to the District of Columbia (DC). Bill 25-194, or the Wage Transparency Omnibus Amendment Act of 2023 will require employers to include salary information in job listings. DC’s Wage Transparency...more
Colorado’s revised Equal Pay Transparency Rules go into effect on January 1, 2024. The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE) has released additional guidance following release of its final rules for...more
The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment has issued proposed Equal Pay Transparency (EPT) Rules. The proposed rules seek to clarify Colorado’s Ensure Equal Pay for Equal Work Act. The Act, which goes into effect...more
Illinois recently amended its Equal Pay Act to require employers with 15 or more workers to include pay and benefits information for each covered job posting. There is, however, a delayed start date: This amendment will take...more
Following the lead of numerous other states and localities requiring pay transparency in job postings, the State of Illinois further amended the Illinois Equal Pay Act of 2003 (IEPA) to accomplish this goal. Effective January...more
Employers across the country have grappled with the requirements of Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (EPEWA), since it went into effect on January 1, 2021. The act was the only one of its kind at the time, and has...more
The Colorado legislature has passed the Ensure Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, amending the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (EPEW) to clarify and enhance an employer’s obligations relating to announcement of a promotional...more
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
As we previously reported, as of November 1, 2022, New York City’s salary transparency law requires covered employers who advertise or post a job, promotion, or transfer opportunity for a role that can or will be performed,...more
As we previously discussed in our August 2022 blog post, beginning January 1, 2023, Washington State’s Pay Transparency Act requires covered employers who post job openings that include a list of qualifications for a specific...more
While pay discrimination laws have been around for quite some time, states and localities are increasingly taking pay discrimination a step further to affirmatively require employers to disclose compensation to applicants and...more
On September 27, 2022, California Governor Newsom signed the state’s pay transparency bill, SB 1162, into law, requiring employers with 15 or more employees to disclose pay ranges in job postings, beginning on January 1,...more
California’s new pay transparency law will go into effect January 1, 2023. In addition to changes to employer reporting requirements, the new law requires employers of 15 or more people to include the pay scale for positions...more
The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (“CDLE”) recently published revisions to its guidance on the posting requirements of the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (“Act”), including some examples that clarify how the CDLE...more
It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more
Amendments to Chicago Ordinance Impose Additional Obligations Relating to the Prevention of Sexual Harassment - As of July 1, 2022, amendments to the Chicago Human Rights Ordinance went into effect, requiring employers...more
Beginning January 1, 2023, many Washington employers will be required to disclose the salary range and benefits in their job postings. Today, Governor Jay Inslee signed Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 5761, amending the...more
Below are some of the latest state updates and posters – The State of California has released various information on Covid-19 related paid sick leave for 2022:...more
When Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (“EPEWA”) went into effect at the beginning of 2021, Colorado became the first state in the U.S. to require employers to disclose compensation (or a range of compensation) in its...more
by Rob Thomas Rob Thomas The Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (EPEWA), effective January 1, 2021, has given Colorado employers significant heartburn regarding its job posting and promotional opportunity notification requirements....more