On Tuesday, March 15, President Joe Biden marked Equal Pay Day by signing an executive order that highlights steps for closing the pay gap for government employees and contractors. He also urged privately held companies to do the same during an event attended by the...
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U.S. Women’s Soccer Team Scores Goal for Equal Pay
Earlier this week, the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team reached a settlement in its class action lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation. According to the complaint, which was initially filed back in 2016 and brought claims under Title VII and the Equal Pay Act,...
Statistical Analysis Helps Avoid Pay Discrepancies
It is good for employers to do a statistical analysis of employee compensation periodically. It can help identify adverse compensation statistics specific to such demographics as race, gender, country of origin or other common threads. This analysis can help root out...
Judge Allows Gender Pay Disparity Class Action Against Google
Over ten thousand women are involved in a class action alleging that Alphabet Inc.’s Google pays men more than women for doing the same jobs. In 2011’s Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes, the U.S. Supreme Court set the bar high for organizing class actions, making it a...
Study: Pay Gap for Women Persists at Top of the Corporate Ladder
In 2019, the highest paid women at U.S. companies earned 84.6 cents for every dollar their male counterparts made, according to a recent paper by researcher Morningstar, Inc. That is an improvement over 2015, when top women earned 81.5 cents on the dollar. The...
How Employers Can Get a Head Start on Maryland’s Upcoming Employment Laws
Beginning on October 1, 2020, several new employment laws will take effect in Maryland. With October 1st right around the corner, employers should take the following steps to make sure they are not caught off guard. The CROWN Act When the “Creating a Respectful and...
World Cup Crowd Chants ‘Equal Pay’ For US Women’s Soccer Team
Sometimes, the call for pay equity is louder than others. The principle that the U.S. women's national soccer team ought to be paid at least as well as their male counterparts received a very loud endorsement from fans on Sunday. After the women's team won the World...
What is Your Current Salary?
There is a growing movement among legislators to ban employers from asking applicants their current or most recent salary. In Maryland, an employer can ask current salary information, but New York City, Massachusetts, and Philadelphia have recently acted to ban the...
Can salary history laws reduce the pay gap and promote workplace equality?
Anyone who has applied for a job has probably had to tell the potential employer how much they earned in their previous jobs, either in the interview process or in an application. Given the current trends, however, it is quite possible employer requests for salary...
Maryland House passes bill strengthening Equal Pay Act
On April 9, 2016, the Maryland House of Delegates passed a bill that enhanced protections for workers across the State. By a 100-36 margin, the House passed a bill that would bar employers from paying employees less on the basis of an employee's sex. In addition, this...