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Minnesota Enacts Pay Transparency Law to Require Salary Range Disclosure in Job Postings

Seyfarth Synopsis: Minnesota joins the growing number of states to adopt statewide legislation requiring employers to disclose starting salary ranges and other forms of compensation and benefits in postings for open...more

New Pay Transparency Requirements for Illinois Employers On the Horizon for 2025

Seyfarth Synopsis: Beginning on January 1, 2025, Illinois will join the list of states that are requiring greater transparency in both the job opportunities available in the state as well as the pay for those jobs. The...more

Maryland Amends Pay Transparency Law to Require Wage Range Disclosure in Job Postings

Seyfarth Synopsis: Maryland Governor Wes Moore has signed into law a bill that will expand Maryland employers’ pay transparency obligations. Effective October 1, 2024, employers must disclose in public or internal job...more

50 State Equal Pay Reference Guide 2024

For organizations that operate in multiple states, tracking the ever-changing requirements related to equal pay issues can pose daunting challenges and the growing “ripple effect” of such requirements is being felt across...more

Global Pay Equity Desktop Reference 2024

There is a global call for greater transparency around employee pay. For multinational organizations, tracking the ever-changing global pay equity reporting obligations can pose daunting challenges. To simplify the process,...more

Biden Administration Announces Actions Aimed at Advancing Pay Equity for the Federal Workforce and Federal Contractor Employees

Seyfarth Synopsis: Earlier this week, the Biden Administration announced actions to support the equal pay principles set forth by Executive Orders 14035 and 14069. These actions will impact federal contractors and...more

And the Beat Goes On – Nevada Now Among States Requiring Employers to Disclose Wage Ranges & Banning Salary History Inquiries

Seyfarth Synopsis: Nevada has enacted legislation that will require employers to provide applicants and some current employees with wage ranges for positions. The new law also makes it unlawful for employers to seek or rely...more

Equal Pay Day 2020: Seyfarth’s Release of Equal Pay Resources

Seyfarth Synopsis: On Equal Pay Day 2020, Seyfarth’s Pay Equity Group is pleased to release two reference guides: its Fourth Annual 50-State Pay Equity Desktop Reference and 2020 Developments in Pay Litigation Report. ...more

Illinois - the Newest State to Toughen its Equal Pay Laws with a Robust Salary History Ban

Seyfarth Synopsis: On July 31, 2019, the Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed HB0834 into law, amending the state’s Equal Pay Act. The amendments toughen the state’s pay equity protections and includes a salary history...more

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

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

California’s Salary History Ban Goes Into Effect But With A Twist

Seyfarth Synopsis: Effective on January 1, 2018, California’s new salary history ban law will prohibit inquiries about an applicant’s salary history and will create an affirmative obligation to disclose a “pay scale” upon an...more

Update: New York City Commission on Human Rights Issues Fact Sheets Regarding the NYC Salary History Ban

Seyfarth Synopsis: On September 12, 2017, the New York City Commission on Human Rights released two eagerly-awaited Fact Sheets to aid in the interpretation of the NYC salary history ban, which goes into effect on October 31,...more

Update: San Francisco’s Salary History Ban Signed Into Law

Seyfarth Synopsis: Mayor Ed Lee signed the “Parity in Pay Ordinance” (“Ordinance”) on July 19, 2017, prohibiting employers from inquiring about a job applicant’s salary history. The law will go into effect on July 1, 2018...more

ALJ Narrows OFCCP’s Request for Google Employee and Pay Data

Seyfarth Synopsis: Last Friday, an administrative law judge limited the amount of information that the OFCCP may seek from Google in its on-going compliance audit because the agency failed demonstrate relevance or justify the...more

San Francisco’s Salary History Ban “Finally Passes” After Two Rounds of Votes

Seyfarth Synopsis: San Francisco is likely to be the next jurisdiction to prohibit employers from asking job applicants about wage history. If signed by the Mayor, as expected, the law will go into effect on July 1, 2018...more

The Baton Passes Back to the East Coast: Prior Salary Ban Passed in Delaware and Philadelphia Law Suit Challenging Prior Salary...

Seyfarth Synopsis: There have been two big updates on the prior salary front. First, Delaware joins the growing number of states and local jurisdictions with its enactment of a law preventing employers from requesting salary...more

The Pay Equity March on the West Coast Begins: Oregon Signs Expansive Equal Pay Law and San Francisco Considers Salary History Ban

Seyfarth Synopsis: The West Coast is turning back to pay equity. Last year, California led the charge and became the first state to adopt a more onerous pay equity law. The East Coast then joined, with stringent pay laws...more

UPDATE: The Trend Continues: NYC Passes Salary History Ban

Seyfarth Synopsis: On May 4, 2017, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law the long awaited ban on employers inquiring about a prospective job applicant’s prior salary history. The law will go into effect in 180...more

Ninth Circuit Holds that Prior Salary Alone May Justify Pay Differential in Equal Pay Act Cases

Seyfarth Synopsis: On April 27, 2017, the Ninth Circuit held that using prior salary alone may support differences in compensation under the Equal Pay Act as a “factor other than sex” if using prior salary was “reasonable”...more

New Jersey Senate Fails to Override Veto on Salary History Inquiry Ban, and Proposes Two New Pay Equity Bills, With Another...

Seyfarth Synopsis: The New Jersey Senate has failed to override Governor Christie’s conditional veto of a bill which would prohibit inquiries into salary history. New Jersey hoped to join Philadelphia and Massachusetts in...more

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