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Election 2024: Gender-Affirming Care in the US

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On the issue of gender-affirming care, how would a Harris-Walz administration affect clients in your practice? Bottom line: A Harris-Walz administration would likely provide health plans and health plan sponsors with...more

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Gender Equity Consideration in School-Sponsored Sports Policies

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As independent schools work to promote equity, understanding, and inclusion of students across the gender spectrum on their campuses, it seems that legislative efforts on the state and federal levels are moving in the...more

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House Holds Hearing on Paycheck Fairness Act

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Seyfarth Synopsis: On Wednesday, February 13, Seyfarth Shaw’s Camille A. Olson testified at a joint hearing of the House Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services and the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections on the...more

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Boardroom Perspectives: Gender Diversity in Boardrooms Gains Momentum

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Taking steps to address board composition for the long term. The movement toward greater diversity in the boardroom continues to gain momentum as market and legal forces drive boards to increase their gender and ethnic...more

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California Bill Amended To Impose $100K Penalty For Failure To Report Timely Board Gender To Secretary Of State

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I have written several posts about a bill, SB 826, now pending in the California legislature that would impose fines on publicly held corporations that fail to meet prescribed gender quotas. ...more

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Will California's Board Gender Quota Bill Encourage Corporations To Dump Male Directors?

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California's board of directors gender quota bill, SB 826, continues its journey through the legislature. Having passed out of the Senate at the end of last month, SB 826 has already been voted out of two Assembly committees...more

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California Gender Equity Quota Bill Advances

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An effort by several California legislators to impose gender quotas on publicly held corporations will be heard next week by the Banking and Financial Institutions Committee. SB 826, as amended on April 3, will apply to both...more

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New Governor, New Result: New Jersey Legislature Passes Pay Equity Bill

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Seyfarth Synopsis: On March 26, 2018, the New Jersey Legislature passed Senate Bill 104, entitled the “Diana B. Allen Equal Pay Act,” an act modifying the Law Against Discrimination to promote equal pay for all protected...more

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You're Gonna Need A Bigger Boat: Pay Equity Initiatives Flood the State Legislatures

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In 2017, legislatures in more than 40 jurisdictions across the United States considered more than 100 bills intended to narrow the lingering pay gap between men and women. While only a handful of those proposals ultimately...more

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July 2017: The Top 12 Labor And Employment Law Stories

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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 each month in 2017. July was no different,...more

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Utah 2017 Legislative Update – Employment Law Issues

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The 2017 session of the Utah Legislature produced few bills affecting employment law; but two bills recently signed by the Governor and one bill that was not passed this year may have an impact on Utah businesses....more

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Maloney Introduces Board Gender Diversity Bill

Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney introduced HR 4718, which would require that the SEC establish a Gender Diversity Advisory Group. The Group would be responsible for studying and making recommendations to the Commission on...more

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Pay Equity Legislation Aims to Eliminate Wage Disparities Between Genders in Massachusetts

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In a hearing before the Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development on Tuesday, July 21, roughly two dozen lawmakers and a wide range of business officials, advocacy groups, non-profit leaders, and academics testified...more

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