Posts Tagged ‘Gender Wage Gap’
ESG a Top Priority for Mutual Fund Managers, Investors
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues are becoming a top priority for mutual fund managers and investors alike. More specifically, the focal point is how employers are addressing them. Companies (including special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs) that want to be included in mutual funds need to know that they’ll be under greater pressure to…
Read MoreLedbetter Act Applies to Equal Pay Act, Appeals Court Rules
By now, many are familiar with Lilly Ledbetter and her fight for equal pay. Nonetheless, her story continues to have renewed relevance by dent of its impact on the U.S. legal landscape. Recently, a U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, and its paycheck accrual rule, apply to the Equal…
Read MoreCanada Pay Equity Act Anticipated to Take Effect This Year
In a landmark effort to ensure that pay equity is both achieved and maintained, the Canadian parliament passed the Pay Equity Act in December of 2018. The Pay Equity Act will create new proactive pay obligations on employers in the public and private sectors. Since 2018, covered organizations have waited for the Act to take…
Read MoreWhat Employers Need to Know About Setting ESG Goals & Measuring Their Progress
As time goes by, it’s becoming clear just how important environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals are for employers. Accurately measuring your ESG progress is only part of the solution. Like most business processes, companies look to Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure progress towards goals and objectives. The issue is that employers are focusing…
Read MoreHow Employers Can Turn Pay Data Reporting into a Better Business
From Risk to Opportunity: How Employers Can Turn Pay Data Reporting into a Better Business Workforce data is the fuel that powers engines of innovation and growth in the 21st century. Just as crude oil must be distilled in order to make gasoline, workforce data must be wrangled, segmented, and cleaned in order to maximize…
Read MoreThree Essential Pay Equity Practices, According to Iceland
3 minute read In the U.S., comprehensive pay equity legislation is long overdue. This congressional inaction means that U.S.-based companies must look overseas to gauge how foreign markets and governments are responding to the growing international movement for gender equality in the workplace. According to a new article in the Harvard Business Review, Iceland has…
Read MoreLessons from Canada’s Equal Pay Act
3 minute read In a landmark effort to close the Candian gender wage gap, and to ensure that pay equity is both achieved and maintained, the Canadian parliament passed the Pay Equity Act in December of 2018. Although the Pay Equity Act has yet to take legal effect, it is expected to come into force…
Read MoreMassachusetts Gender & Racial Wage Gap Persists, Despite the Equal Pay Act
3 minute read The gender gap in Massachusetts showcases the occupational differences that can complicate pay equity, even with the changes to state law. The most populous state in New England, and the home of the diverse metropolitan city of Boston, seemed poised to take a leadership role with the 2016 passage of The Massachusetts…
Read MoreLatinas Face a Lifetime of Gender Wage Gap Across the U.S.
3 minute read As the electoral returns trickled in last week, the eyes of the nation watched as new demographics carved out a new constituency, and much was said about the Latino vote. Long underrepresented in media writ large, and conspicuously lacking from high office and executive positions, a new focus on DE&I initiatives is…
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…
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