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A cautionary tale for employers. EDITOR’S NOTE: Our Affirmative Action Alert blog has been re-titled EEO Compliance Dispatch. Many companies proactively analyze employee compensation to ensure that any disparities...more
With the revocation of Executive Order 11246 (EO 11246) many contractors are uncertain what their pay equity compliance obligations are. The short answer is simply that very little has changed. Under EO 11246, contractors’...more
Employers are paying close attention to pay transparency laws, which are the latest trend in employment legislation. Often expanding on existing pay equity laws, many state and local governments have enacted or proposed...more
On January 8, 2025, the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) and the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council withdrew a proposed rule that would have banned federal contractors and subcontractors from seeking or...more
Citing limited time in the remaining administration and desire to focus on “other priorities”, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council announced its withdrawal of the pending proposed rule requiring federal contractors...more
On November 18, 2024, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed into law, Senate Bill 2310, making it the eleventh state to enact a pay transparency law. On June 1, 2025, when the new law goes into effect, certain New Jersey...more
Employers have been conducting pay equity audits for decades to identify disparities in compensation that may create unfairness, legal risk, or other compliance issues. Recently, however, we have seen a spate of new pay...more
On January 29, 2024, the Biden administration announced a series of pay equity and transparency initiatives. One initiative comes in the form of a proposed rule to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to (1)...more
Over the past few decades, pay equity has remained at the forefront of legislation affecting employers. At the federal level, the Equal Pay Act of 1963 prohibits wage discrimination based on sex, and the Lilly Ledbetter Fair...more
In 2023, contractors can expect continued – and heightened – enforcement actions from the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP). Among other things, the OFCCP is taking on a greater interest in pay equity,...more
Governor Hochul signed into law yesterday an amendment to New York’s state labor law which will require private sector employers in the state to disclose salary ranges on job postings. With this measure, New York State is the...more
Discover how to set and accomplish your ESG goals - Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) is no longer an isolated function within a company, nor is it an issue only for publicly traded companies. It’s front and center...more
Federal contractors should remain vigilant in how they structure and conduct internal pay equity audits to ensure compliance with newly revised federal guidance. On August 18, 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office...more
Some relatively good news from the OFCCP. The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs revised its Directive around contractors’ evaluations of their compensation systems. Directive 2022-01, formerly titled “Pay...more
The latest legal buzzword, ESG, represents the environmental, social and governance factors that many corporations are now required to consider and disclose alongside traditional financial information such as operating...more
In June 2021, the Illinois Equal Pay Act (IEPA) was amended to add a requirement for certain Illinois businesses to obtain an equal pay registration certificate (EPRC). The Illinois Department of Labor (IDOL) issued its long...more
Federal contractors who conduct pay equity audits under attorney-client and work product privileges face increased risks under a new directive by the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Federal Contract Compliance...more
On March 15, 2022 - National Pay Equity Day in the US - the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) issued its first directive under the Biden administration, Directive 2022-01 (the “Directive”). The...more
In the first internal agency directive during Jenny Yang’s tenure as director, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) issued Directive 2022-01, entitled “Pay Equity Audits” on March 15, 2021. OFCCP’s...more
Comp analyses are not privileged, OFCCP says. In a Directive published today, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs says that it has the right to access contractors' compensation analyses, which have...more
The Pay Equity Act, which Canada’s federal government passed in 2018, is going into effect on August 31, 2021. The act aims to address the systemic gender-based discrimination faced by women in federally regulated sectors by...more
This episode of Employment Law Now provides an update on current DC initiatives to change joint employer and overtime exemption standards, as well as Part 1 of a two-part interview with a leading expert on conducting an...more
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Join professionals in ethics and compliance, human resources, legal, audit and training for the annual 2016 Ethics & Compliance Virtual Conference! Learn strategies to help you build a better governed, more risk-aware, and...more