Vermont Governor Philip Scott on June 4, 2024 signed into law H.704, a pay transparency requirement mandating employers with five or more employees to include wage ranges in job advertisements, effective July 1, 2025. The...more
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz recently signed into law a pay transparency requirement that will require employers with 30 or more employees in Minnesota to provide wage ranges on job postings beginning January 1, 2025....more
Maryland Governor Wes Moore signed a pay transparency requirement into law on April 25, 2024, requiring that all employers in Maryland include wage ranges and benefit information in all job postings....more
Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser signed legislation on January 12 requiring that all covered employers must disclose pay ranges in all job postings and advertisements and also disclose the existence of any additional...more
Hawaii Governor Josh Green recently signed into law a requirement that employers in Hawaii include in job listings information on the expected hourly rate or salary range for positions. The July 3, 2023 law is an amendment to...more
The New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) issued a Final Rule implementing New York City Local Law 144 (the AI Law) and announced July 5, 2023 as the new effective date for implementation and...more
Effective October 3, 2020, the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) has updated Pennsylvania’s overtime rules to increase the salary threshold for qualifying under the Pennsylvania Minimum Wage Act (PMWA) as an...more
The recent ruling by a federal appeals court holds that prior pay does not justify pay differential between male and female employees under the Equal Pay Act. Along with state and local laws that regulate reliance upon...more
The New Jersey Legislature passed a bill that makes it an unlawful employment practice to pay employees of a protected class a different rate of compensation from nonclass members for “substantially similar” work unless that...more
Employers may need to adjust hiring and recruiting practices before the law takes effect in December.
On Thursday, December 14, 2017, a new law will take effect in Delaware forbidding employers from requesting compensation...more
The court did not address the new California Fair Pay Act, which provides that prior pay is not a defense to pay claims, and its decision is not entirely consistent with other circuit courts of appeals on whether prior pay...more
Mayor Jim Kenney is expected to sign the bill into law, which would make it an unlawful employment practice for covered employers to ask job applicants about prior pay....more