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Trends in Pay Equity - Developments in California, New York, Massachusetts and Nationwide
Starting on March 1, 2024, Columbus will join over 40 states, counties, and cities, including Cincinnati and Toledo, in prohibiting employers from asking applicants about wage rates or salary history. The Columbus ordinance’s...more
Executive Summary: On January 12, 2024, the District of Columbia amended the Pay Transparency Act of 2014, joining a growing list of states, counties, and localities to implement more a more expansive pay transparency law....more
The most recent trend in employment-related legislation: pay transparency. New York City has enacted a new law mandating that as of May 15, 2022, employers with four or more employees—including independent contractors...more
The past month has brought notable pay equity developments to the Mid-Atlantic, including pending legislation in Maryland, and a Third Circuit decision that might have far-reaching effects beyond the Philadelphia salary...more
On February 6, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld the Philadelphia Wage Equity Ordinance (“Ordinance”) by reactivating the Ordinance’s prohibition on employer inquiries into an applicant’s salary...more
When looking for reasons to explain the persistent salary gap between male and female employees, worker advocates have focused on initial pay negotiations during the hiring process. If new female employees’ salaries are set...more
On February 6, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld a City of Philadelphia ordinance that prohibits employers from inquiring after and/or relying upon a prospective employee’s wage history in any...more
The United States Court of Appeal for the Third Circuit has issued its decision upholding the Philadelphia Wage Equity Ordinance, one of the so-called “salary history ban” laws....more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Many states and cities have recently enacted laws prohibiting employers from inquiring about an applicant’s salary history or seeking that information from the applicant or the applicant’s current or former...more
On February 6, 2020, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Philadelphia’s salary history ordinance and reversed the decision of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania which had held that...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled that a Philadelphia city ordinance that prohibits Philadelphia employers from asking applicants about their current or past pay rates is constitutional....more
On Thursday, February 6, 2020, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order upholding Philadelphia’s Salary History Ordinance (the Ordinance). Philadelphia was an early adopter of legislation prohibiting inquiries into...more
Changes to New York state law that prohibit employer inquiries into the salary history of applicants and employees took effect on January 6, 2020. Recently, the New York Department of Labor released a series of Frequently...more
2019 brought a number of important changes in the law that warrant the attention of New York employers. Start off the new year right and ensure your calendars are up to date by including the 2020 effective dates of these New...more
Columbia, South Carolina passed an ordinance effective August 6, 2019, limiting employers’ use of criminal background checks and banning employers from inquiring about salary history on job applications. ...more
Since 2016, hundreds of bills and dozens of new laws aimed at closing the pay gap have been introduced and enacted at both the state and local levels. These laws include jurisdiction-specific pay equity laws, salary history...more
Toledo, Ohio recently joined the growing number of nationwide jurisdictions to pass local ordinances prohibiting employers from asking applicants for salary history. Toledo is the second Ohio city to pass this type of...more
The Kansas City, Missouri council has approved an ordinance that will prohibit Kansas City employers from inquiring into a job applicant’s previous salary history. The goal is to reduce a gender pay gap which, according to...more
Kansas City, Missouri joined the growing list of cities with salary history bans, aligning with a national trend that continues to gain momentum. On May 23, 2019, the city council passed Ordinance No. 190380—aimed to address...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On March 13, 2019, the City of Cincinnati passed a salary history ban ordinance. The law will also require that employers provide some job applicants the “pay scale” associated with the job for which they...more
On March 12, 2019, Cincinnati, Ohio passed an ordinance prohibiting employers from asking applicants about their salary history or current earnings....more
Prohibiting inquiries about an employment applicant’s salary history is one of the latest efforts by lawmakers at various levels of government to close the wage gap between men and women and minorities and non-minorities. In...more
The City of San Diego joined a growing list of state and local jurisdictions by enacting a pay equity ordinance on July 31, 2017. The Equal Pay Ordinance requires city contractors to certify in writing that they will...more
On July 19, 2017, San Francisco became the latest jurisdiction to enact a law banning employers from asking job applicants about their salary histories. The San Francisco “Parity in Pay” Ordinance will become effective on...more
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has just added two new employment ordinances to the burgeoning list of employment-related ordinances in the City by the Bay. First, the Parity in Pay Ordinance prohibits employers from...more