The Year Ahead: Diversity Analytics and Pay Equity
Is the #MeToo Movement Over? - Employment Law This Week® - Trending News
I-18- DC Update on Joint Employer and OT Issues, and Part 1 of an Expert Interview on Pay Equity Audits
Episode 25: EEOC Commissioner Chai Feldblum Part II: Other Emerging EEOC Trends + Takeaways
Trends in Pay Equity - Developments in California, New York, Massachusetts and Nationwide
As pay equity continues to evolve as a key component of total rewards and talent management strategy, organizations are increasingly focused on remediating pay disparities. WorldatWork’s 2024-25 Salary Budget Survey revealed...more
Following last week's insight on employment status, we focus this week, just before the election, on the issue of Ethnicity and Disability (E&D) Pay Gap Reporting....more
Following the death of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests against racial inequity in 2020, many companies increased their commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), as well as their external...more
#MeToo is still moving across the pond. On March 8, 2024, the House of Commons Treasury Committee published a report entitled “Sexism in the City” (referenced as “Report” in this article), which found that the...more
The Sexism in the City report highlights key issues affecting women in financial services and sets out a number of recommendations to address them. On 8 March 2024, the House of Commons Treasury Committee published its...more
As we predicted, pay transparency has become a priority for employers worldwide in 2023. Governments and organizations are taking major steps to address disparities in pay and ensure workplace fairness. Failing to comply...more
Wild horses couldn’t have dragged me to see the new Barbie film. But then I saw that a number of commentators from various quarters in the States were criticising the film for being “woke” and “feminist” and even burning...more
Recent evidence suggests that progress towards gender parity has slowed and that the gender gap has in fact widened since the pandemic. This article highlights some key legal developments in the UK and Europe that are...more
U.S. GAO Published Report on Strengthening “DEIA” in the Federal Civilian Workforce - The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a two-page “snapshot” report to discuss its work from 2017-2022 on the...more
The Financial Services Skills Commission has issued an insight paper outlining how companies can collect and evaluate data on employees’ socioeconomic backgrounds. Socioeconomic backgrounds of employees and socioeconomic...more
The Supreme Court Delivers Verdict in Landmark Uber Case - As we reported in our dedicated update, the Supreme Court gave judgment in the final appeal in relation to the Uber litigation at the end of February, unanimously...more
The confluence of prominent social justice movements, enactment of a variety of state and local legislation and an incoming presidential administration committed to diversity, equity and inclusion will keep pay equity front...more
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) on November 12 released updates to its benchmark proxy voting policies, which will apply for shareholder meetings taking place on or after February 1, 2021. ...more
A Trending News video from Employment Law This Week®: According to The New York Times, over 200 executives have been ousted since 2017, leaving some wondering – is #MeToo over? Far from it. This dynamic, macro-equity...more
This week’s data released by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) shows some modest improvements in workplace gender equality in the entities required to report to WGEA (those with 100 or more employees)....more
Seyfarth Synopsis: With a single utterance at the recent Academy Awards ceremony, “inclusion rider” entered the popular lexicon. That has led many to wonder, “What is an inclusion rider?” The next question, of course, is...more
Coming off the heels of a fantastic Blockbuster first few weeks, nearly $900 million made at the box office globally, and premiering during Black History Month, there is no denying that Black Panther is just the start of a...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Google now finds itself in the unfortunate position of being accused of discrimination against women in pay and promotions and – according to a new complaint filed in California Superior Court – against...more
International Shareholder Services (ISS) has made available for public comment certain proposed changes to ISS’ benchmark voting policies for 2018 that could generally become effective for the upcoming proxy season....more