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Vermont Passes Pay Transparency Law: Considerations for Employers

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 Passes Pay Transparency Law

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 Passes Pay Transparency Law

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

DC Mayor Signs Amendments to DC Code on Pay Transparency and Wage History

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 Revised Statutes Amended to Address Pay Transparency and Equal Pay

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

New York City Issues Final Rule on AI Bias Law and Postpones Enforcement to July 2023

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

Pennsylvania Raises Salary Threshold, Updates Duties Tests With New Overtime Rule

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

Ninth Circuit: Prior Pay No Defense to Equal Pay Act Claim

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

New Jersey’s Proposed Pay Equity Law Would Provide New Employee Protections

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

Delaware Law Prohibits Employers from Requesting Compensation Information

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

Ninth Circuit: Prior Pay Can Be Defense to Equal Pay Act Claim Under Certain Circumstances

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

Philadelphia City Council Passes Bill Barring Inquiries into Prior Pay

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

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