Posts by Nicholas Starkman
Outlook: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Access (DEI&A) in 2021
3 minute read 2020 brought coast-to-coast changes to compliance obligations in the areas of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Access (DEI&A). California enacted a new law requiring certain organizations to submit annual reports on compensation, hours worked, and employee demographics. In Colorado, employers geared up for the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, which provides a…
Read MoreNew Colorado Equal Pay Rules Proposed
3 minute read Earlier this year, Trusaic highlighted Colorado’s aggressive new equal pay law set to take effect on January 1, 2021, the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (“EPEWA”). Now, we have recently released proposed rules from Colorado’s Department of Labor and Employment, providing employers much needed guidance concerning EPEWA compliance. This post specifically…
Read MorePay Equity Suit Against Rutgers: Employers Take Note
2 minute read Earlier this summer, Trusaic discussed an equal pay case brought by a psychology professor against the University of Oregon. In Freyd v. University of Oregon, Professor Jennifer Freyd, a well-respected scholar with over thirty years’ experience, sued on the basis that at least four other male professors in her same department received…
Read MoreOn the Cutting Edge of DE&I: CA’s New Board Diversity Law
2 minute read California made waves in 2018 when it enacted a law requiring publicly held corporations headquartered within the state to have a minimum of one female director on its board by the close of 2019. By no later than the close of the 2021 calendar year, such corporations with five directors must have…
Read MoreNew KPIs Promise Consistency in Gender & Diversity Analytics
As businesses around the globe continue to come online to the import of analytics around diversity, equity, inclusion, and access (DEI&A), a consistent challenge is the lack of uniformity in approaches to measuring success in this area. As Trusaic observed earlier this month concerning quantifying demographic changes within a specific workforce: “There is also a…
Read MoreA Guide to Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act
Several states and cities are passing laws to further bolster the federal Equal Pay Act. Trusaic is featuring some of these laws to provide insight into trends in pay equity compliance requirements as more of these laws are considered by states, counties, and municipalities. In this post, we look at Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal…
Read MoreKamala Harris’s Plan to Compel Equal Pay Compliance
Senator Kamala Harris is a historic choice for vice president by almost any standard. Yet there is one part of her record that is often overlooked but nonetheless critical to the U.S. keeping pace with the international community, and that is Senator Harris’s fight for pay equity. Trusaic recently took readers of the PayParity Post…
Read MoreNLRB: Labor Laws Cannot be Used to Protect Racists
The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) is the primary federal agency responsible for making decisions on workplace issues surrounding union activity. The NLRB interprets the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”), legislation that guarantees certain rights to employees, such as the right to form or join a union, as well as the right to refrain from…
Read MoreLawmakers Introduce Bill to Expand Gender Board Law to Underrepresented Groups
On September 30, 2018, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a bill that sought to reshape corporate boards in California by mandating gender diversity. SB 826 required publicly held corporations located in California to report at least one female on the board of directors in corporate disclosure statements by the close of 2019 or face…
Read MoreHow Serious are EEOC Age Discrimination Charges? Very.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is a government agency charged with enforcing federal civil rights laws, such as the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA). The ADEA protects applicants and employees 40 years of age and older from discrimination on the basis of age in hiring, promotion, discharge, compensation, or terms, conditions…
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