Posts Tagged ‘EEOC’
Looking Back at Senator Harris’s Equal Pay Plan
2 minute read Last week, Democrats secured two Senate seats in Georgia, giving them a narrow edge in the Senate and thrusting Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris even further into the national spotlight. With the critical ability to serve as tie-breaker in the evenly split chamber, Harris will immediately occupy a position of power to shape…
Read MoreDemocracy, Data, and DEI: How the New President Will Transform the Pay Equity Landscape
3 minute read President-elect Biden made inclusion and equity a focal point of the Democratic big-tent strategy during the 2020 presidential election. Even as political striations appeared in national down-ballot races, President-Elect Biden’s decisive victory (and the passing of progressive policies and local ballot measures in various states across the US) are factors that provide…
Read MoreComponent 2 Style Pay Data Reporting May Be Coming to California by January 2021
With last year’s announcement by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) that it will not seek to renew collection of its EEO-1 Component 2 pay data, California appears posted to fill in the void. California’s Senate Bill 973 is based on the EEOC’s former Component 2 pay data reporting, and if signed, will become…
Read MoreImproving American Jobs Will Lead to Equality, HBR Study Finds
A recent study by the Harvard Business Review highlights the economic hardships that workers of color face, and how employers play a part in changing these long-standing issues. In the study, titled “Equality in the U.S. Starts with Better Jobs,” author Zeynep Ton dives into the racial and economical disadvantages Americans of color and gender…
Read MoreEEOC Invokes the Information Quality Act for a Third Study of Its Pay Data
The EEOC voted unanimously to defer any use of the EEO-1 Component 2 pay data that it has already collected until 2022 at the earliest. Instead, the EEOC is sponsoring another study of the Component 2 data by a panel appointed by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT)…
Read MoreMore Governments are Encouraging Pay Equity Through Transparency
Effective April 2017, the United Kingdom set a global example on the issue of pay equity by requiring organizations to publish 12-month snapshots online accounting for their gender pay gaps. The pay data reports are publicly accessible online. One critical idea underlying the pay data reporting obligations in the UK is that transparency serves to…
Read MoreWomen’s National Basketball Association Shoots for Pay Equity
The Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) just announced a tentative deal that would boost player pay, guarantee full salaries while on maternity leave, and provide other important benefits. In an interview with the Associated Press, the WNBA Commissioner called the deal “historic.” Sports have long been a platform for social progress. Recent efforts by the…
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