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No Risk, No Reward: Steps an Employer Can Take to Conduct an Effective Pay Audit Without Creating Greater Risk for Their...

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Back in 2021, survey data from the Society for Human Resource Management reflected that nearly 58 percent of U.S. employers voluntarily conducted pay audits. ...more

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“Show Me the Money”: Pay equity and transparency in the workplace

Today is National Equal Pay Day. They say that the average woman has to work from January 1, 2023, through March 12, 2024, to make as much money as a man who worked only in calendar year 2023. While there are many...more

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Higher Enforcement Activity Expected After DOL-EEOC Partnership Agreement

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The Department of Labor (DOL) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) have announced they will be collaborating and sharing information to improve their enforcement efforts....more

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EEOC Sues LeachGarner for Sex Discrimination

Metallurgical Company Relegated Female Workers Into Lower-Paying Departments And Paid Them Less Than Male Employees, Federal Agency Charges - BOSTON – LeachGarner, Inc., a metallurgical manufacturer and supplier, violated...more

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Pay Transparency and Equity Issues

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History of Pay Inequality - Pay discrimination is not new in the United States. In 1963, Congress enacted the Equal Pay Act to address a centuries-old problem of sex-based discrimination in the payment of wages by...more

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Equal Pay Day: Addressing Potential Gender-Based Pay Disparities in the Workplace

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has expressed a renewed intention to enforce federal laws prohibiting discrimination in pay amid a reported persistent “pay gap” between women and men in the United...more

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EEOC Sues Thomas B. Finan Center for Equal Pay Act Violations

Male Therapeutic Recreator Was Paid More Than Four Senior Females, Federal Agency Charges - BALTIMORE – The Maryland Department of Health’s Thomas B. Finan Center in Cumberland, a state residential psychiatric care center,...more

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EEOC Sues University of Texas at Permian Basin Under The Equal Pay Act

Female Accounting Professor Paid Less than Male Professors for the Same Work, Federal Agency Charges - MIDLAND, Texas – The University of Texas at Permian Basin violated the Equal Pay Act by paying lesser wages to a female...more

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U.S. Women’s Soccer to Receive Equal Pay in Historic New Collective Bargaining Agreement

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In an unprecedented move, the U.S. Men’s and Women’s National Soccer Teams agreed to joint collective bargaining agreements with the U.S. Soccer Federation (USSF) on May 18 which guarantees equal pay for both teams. Not only...more

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Leveling the Playing Field: Lessons Employers Can Learn from U.S. Women’s Soccer $24 Million Settlement of Equal Pay Dispute

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In what is being portrayed as a significant victory for women in sports, the United States women’s national soccer team (USWNT) announced a $24 million-dollar settlement of a class action equal pay action against the U.S....more

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Dell to Pay $75,000 to Settle EEOC Equal Pay Lawsuit

IT Systems Analyst Paid Less Than Male Coworker for the Same Work, Federal Agency Charged - DALLAS — Dell, Inc. has agreed to pay $75,000 and to provide other relief to settle an equal pay and sex discrimination lawsuit...more

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With an Eye Towards Pay Equity Illinois Enters the Wage Data Collection Game

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On March 23, 2021, Illinois amended the state’s Equal Pay Act of 2003 to include additional reporting requirements targeted at identifying gender and racial pay disparities....more

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Women’s National Soccer Team Collective Action Against USSF: Settlement, In Part

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A lawsuit brought by female professional soccer players against the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) may be settled, partly. In 2019, female professional soccer players on the United States Senior Women’s National...more

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This Week at the Ninth: Payment and Prayer

This week, the Ninth Circuit issued two decisions addressing interesting employment-discrimination issues.  In the first, a divided panel held that a university’s policy of raising the salaries of professors who threaten to...more

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First Metropolitan Financial Services to Pay $100,000 to Settle EEOC Pay Discrimination Lawsuit

Female Branch Manager Paid Less Than Males in Same Position, Federal Agency Charged - TUPELO, Miss. – First Metropolitan Financial Services, Inc. has agreed to pay $100,000 to resolve a pay discrimination lawsuit filed by...more

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Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act effective January 2021

Among the most significant employment-related bills passed by the Colorado General Assembly during its 2019 legislative session was Colorado’s new Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (EPEWA). The Act, which will go into effect...more

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Davis & Davis Enterprise Settles EEOC Equal Pay Lawsuit

Security Company Paid Female Employees Lower Wages Than Male Employees For Equal Work, Federal Agency Charged - BALTIMORE – Maryland-based Davis & Davis Enterprise, Inc., an employer of security guards that also operates...more

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EEOC Sues Dell for Allegedly Violating Equal Pay Laws

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The EEOC recently sued Dell, Inc. for alleged violations of the Equal Pay Act (EPA) and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, both of which prohibit discrimination in compensation on the basis of sex. According to the...more

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Dell Sued by EEOC for Violation of Equal Pay Laws

IT Analyst Paid Less Than Male Co-Worker for the Same Work, Federal Agency Charges - DALLAS — Dell, Inc. violated federal law by paying lesser wages to a female IT analyst than it paid to a male employee performing work...more

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Bryce Corporation to Pay $50,000 to Settle EEOC Equal Pay Lawsuit

Flexible Packaging Company Paid Female Senior Business Analyst Less Than Male, Federal Agency Charged - MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Bryce Corporation, an integrated manufacturer which produces flexible packaging products for food,...more

Orrick - Equal Pay Pulse

Ninth Circuit Hears Pay Case Challenging University Pay Decisions

On Tuesday, May 12, 2020, the Ninth Circuit heard oral argument in Freyd v. University of Oregon. Jennifer Freyd, a professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon, filed a class action lawsuit in March 2017 alleging...more

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California District Court Kicks Out U.S. Women’s National Team’s Equal Pay Claims

A California district court dealt a blow to the U.S. Women’s National Team’s (WNT) equal pay case on May 1, granting partial summary judgment to the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) in the headline-grabbing case filed...more

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California Federal Court Grants USSF’s Summary Judgment Motion in Women’s Soccer Equal Pay Act Case

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Earlier this month, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California granted the defendant U.S. Soccer Federation’s motion for summary judgment with respect to the plaintiffs’ Equal Pay Act (EPA) claims....more

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Judge Red Cards U.S. Women's Soccer Team's Equal Pay Claim

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The U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team’s (“WNT”) battle to increase pay in line with that afforded to the U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team (“MNT”) was dealt a blow last Friday as a judge dismissed their Equal Pay Act ("EPA")...more

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Second Verse, Same as the First: Ninth Circuit Reiterates That Salary History Does Not Justify Pay Differences Under the Equal Pay...

On February 27, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in Rizo v. Yovino, (again) found that salary history is not a “factor other than sex” that can justify a pay disparity in defense of a claim...more

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