Posts Tagged ‘Gender Pay Gaps’
Columbus Salary History Ban Takes Effect March 1
Columbus, Ohio is set to join Toledo and Cincinnati by banning inquiries into the compensation of job candidates. Effective March 1, 2024, the Columbus salary history ban applies to organizations with 15 or more employees in the city. The ban also extends to job placement, referral and recruitment agencies acting on behalf of employers. Pay…
Read MoreNew York City’s Pay Transparency Law Requires Employers to Provide Salary Range Disclosures
The New York City Council closed out 2021 with a step to bolster pay equity, approving a bill that would require employers to post salary ranges in job listings. Earlier this month the was bill was effectively signed into law when New York City Mayor, Eric Adams neither signed nor vetoed the bill. The passage…
Read MoreHas 50 Years of Equal Pay Legislation Done Enough to Level the Playing Field? Not Even Close.
Bound by a red ribbon, it is tucked away in the United Kingdom’s Parliamentary Archives. The paper on which it is printed is yellowing slightly. The first page reads simply: “AN ACT TO Prevent discrimination, as regards terms and conditions of employment, between men and women.” Passed just over fifty years ago, and in effect…
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…
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