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Feds Say Tech Industry Still Lacks Diversity: 10 Steps Employers Can Take to Eliminate Barriers

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Tech industry employers may want to boost their anti-discrimination efforts as the federal government recently decided to shine a spotlight on low diversity in many high-tech occupations. Although tech employers have made...more

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Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders and Equal Pay: What the Hit Netflix Show Tells UK Employers

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The concept of “work of equal value” is, at its simplest, a comparison between jobs that might seem very different but when distilled down, are actually of equal value to the employer. “Value” is a concept that has been...more

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“Show Me the Money”: Pay equity and transparency in the workplace

Today is National Equal Pay Day. They say that the average woman has to work from January 1, 2023, through March 12, 2024, to make as much money as a man who worked only in calendar year 2023. While there are many...more

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International Women’s Day 2024: Pay gaps, the law of averages and accelerating progress

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International Women’s Day for 2024 has the important theme of Count Her In: Invest in Women. The UN talks about the importance of empowering women and investing in women in a range of ways. This includes accelerating women’s...more

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Women’s World Cup 2023 – Equal Pay for Women in and Out of Sports

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This year’s Women’s World Cup, which kicked off on July 20, 2023, has been drawing record viewers both in person and on television. As viewers watch these teams compete, many wonder whether these athletes receive pay equal to...more

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Time to go back in the box, Barbie

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Wild horses couldn’t have dragged me to see the new Barbie film. But then I saw that a number of commentators from various quarters in the States were criticising the film for being “woke” and “feminist” and even burning...more

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[Webinar] Expert Summit for Employment Attorneys: Utilizing Regression Analyses in Pay and Hiring Matters - February 7th, 2:00 pm...

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Regression is a statistical technique that can be utilized in the analysis of employment outcomes. In particular, regression has become a widely applied tool to examine pay equity and can be used to evaluate race and gender...more

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California Court Reverses Dismissal of EPA Claim

A California appellate panel reversed dismissal of a female employee’s Equal Pay Act (EPA) claim, finding her evidence that a single male comparator was paid more than she was to be sufficient to survive summary judgment....more

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U.S. Women’s Soccer Gets Court Approval on Historic Equal Pay Settlement: 3 Steps for Employers to Strengthen Their Pay Policies

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The U.S. women’s national soccer team (USWNT) is close to receiving a $24 million payout now that a federal judge has preliminarily approved the current and former team members’ settlement with the U.S. Soccer Federation...more

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Reading the Riot Act: $100 Million Settlement in Gender Discrimination Class Action

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A California Superior Court judge recently preliminarily approved a $100 million settlement in connection with a class action brought on behalf of a class of current and former female employees at video game studio Riot...more

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U.S. Women’s Soccer to Receive Equal Pay in Historic New Collective Bargaining Agreement

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In an unprecedented move, the U.S. Men’s and Women’s National Soccer Teams agreed to joint collective bargaining agreements with the U.S. Soccer Federation (USSF) on May 18 which guarantees equal pay for both teams. Not only...more

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All on Board: Mississippi Joins the Nation in Prohibiting Pay Discrimination Based on Gender

For the past three years, Mississippi remained the only state in the country that did not have a bill prohibiting pay discrimination based on gender. This all changed on April 20, 2022, when Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves...more

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Leveling the Playing Field: Lessons Employers Can Learn from U.S. Women’s Soccer $24 Million Settlement of Equal Pay Dispute

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In what is being portrayed as a significant victory for women in sports, the United States women’s national soccer team (USWNT) announced a $24 million-dollar settlement of a class action equal pay action against the U.S....more

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Growing State and Local Equal Pay Protections

Pay equity will be a focus of the Biden Administration, as was made clear in the White House Proclamation on Equal Pay Day last week. But states are not waiting on the federal government to act; several are moving forward...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

[Podcast] The Biden-Harris Administration’s Agenda for Women

In this special episode, Akin Gump investment management partner and Women Firmwide Resource Group co-head Barbara Niederkofler moderates a panel featuring labor and employment partner Esther Lander, public law and policy...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Left Coast Appeals

This Week at the Ninth: Payment and Prayer

This week, the Ninth Circuit issued two decisions addressing interesting employment-discrimination issues.  In the first, a divided panel held that a university’s policy of raising the salaries of professors who threaten to...more

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French Gender Equality Index: New Publication Obligations

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France’s decree no. 2021-265 of March 10, 2021, has modified the publication modalities of the gender equality index and has imposed specific obligations on French companies benefiting from the stimulus plan introduced by the...more

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Gender pay gap reporting update

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Enforcement of the obligation on UK employers of the requisite size to file gender pay gap reports was suspended in respect of 2019/20 due to the Covid-19 outbreak. The obligation to comply with the applicable gender pay gap...more

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One Step Closer, Yet Still So Far—Narrowing the Wage Gap

2020 seems to have been the “year that keeps on giving” for most of us (and not in a positive way). However, there is some good news for women lawyers. In a recent article entitled As Partner Compensation Grows, Gender Pay...more

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The Top 20 Non-COVID Workplace Law Stories Of 2020

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That this past year was the most challenging year in your professional life is an almost certainty. You were forced to learn entirely new statutory schemes, absorb new local health directives on a near-daily basis, create a...more

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Ontario, Canada: Human Rights Tribunal Finds Midwives Underpaid Due to Gender Discrimination

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In Association of Ontario Midwives v Ontario (Health and Long-Term Care), 2020 HRTO 165, the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal (HRTO) found that the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOH) underpaid midwives due to gender...more

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Updates on EEO-1 Reports, Non-Binary Self-Identification, and VETS-4212 Reports

EEO-1 Reports - With September upon us, many employers are remembering the prior filing deadline for EEO-1 Reports and wondering what is happening with that obligation. The short answer is that the U.S. Equal Employment...more

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The Top 5 (Non-COVID-19) Developments In Dealership Employment Law

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You have probably seen a lot of coronavirus news alerts lately, but as a car dealer, you already know that germs are not the only things that can cause headaches. Virus or no virus, the law is still going to change and...more

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California Superior Court Grants Class Certification in Equal Pay Case

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On April 30, 2020, Judge V. Raymond Swope of San Mateo Superior Court granted plaintiffs’ motion for class certification in Jewett et al. v. Oracle America, Inc. In doing so, the court certified a class of more than 4,100...more

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Saudi Arabia Issues Resolution With Equal Pay Rules Among Changes Applicable to the Employment of Women

Employment law as it relates to women continued to be an area of focus for the government in 2019 with the issuance of Ministerial Resolution No. (39860), which sets out a number of rules....more

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