March 15, 2016

Employment Law Navigator – Week in Review: March 2016

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March is Women’s History Month, and last week, strides in hiring women, efforts to reduce the gender wage gap, and attempts to increase diversity in the tech industry were in the news. Salesforce, in particular, explained its process for eliminating the gender wage gap among its 17,000 employees. After evaluating positions and comparing salaries, Salesforce ultimately raised the salaries of six percent of its workforce at a cost of $3 million dollars.

Discrimination

The failure to hire a qualified male janitor resulted in an EEOC gender discrimination suit.
HR Xperts published a new infographic that describes the inequities between maternity and paternity leave.
A Minnesota-based medical device company settled an EEOC gender discrimination suit for $1 million after the agency uncovered the president of the company’s statement that “women in sales is a 100% fail.”

Technology

Bernard Marr wrote about the 21 scariest things big data knows about you, including when you’ll quit your job.
Home Depot disclosed that it will pay $19.5 million to resolve lawsuits stemming from a data breach. In addition, the home improvement giant paid $161 million in costs associated with the breach.
Mike C. West argued that embedded analytics – the people analytics that comes with HR technology – is not the future.
Bloomberg BNA covered cyberslacking, employee monitoring, and March Madness.
Google’s Eric Schmidt admitted that artificial intelligence could take some jobs, but said that’s okay.
UnitedHealthCare announced a plan to incorporate wearable devices into employer health plans.

In other developments:

The Harvard Business Review gave tips on what to do when an employee learns a co-worker makes more money.
Former employees of an iron ore mine sued the mine’s executives for failure to pay overtime.

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