Posts Tagged ‘New york times’
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 MoreIs Silicon Valley Evolving on Issues of Pay Equity?
2 minute read Is Silicon Valley evolving on issues of pay equity? The latest data point in this debate is provided by Pinterest, the innovative social media platform that allows users to “pin” images from around the web to customizable boards. Pinterest recently settled a gender discrimination lawsuit with its former chief operating officer for…
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 MoreA Pay Equity Strategy Should Start at Home: Recommendations for Sharing Equal Work
It has been over thirty years since the sociologist Arlie Hochschild wrote her landmark work, The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home. In The Second Shift Hochschild interviewed 50 different couples as they struggled to adapt to the new reality of more women and mothers entering the workforce in the 1980’s. She…
Read MoreAccustomed to Ears, All Eyes on Boston Symphony Orchestra in Equal Pay Lawsuit [UPDATED]
An equal pay lawsuit filed by a classical musician against the Boston Symphony Orchestra may provide an inkling into the legal strategy that may be used by employees under Massachusetts’ trailblazing equal pay law, “An Act to Establish Pay Equity.” The new law, known as the Massachusetts Equal Pay Act, or MEPA, took effect on…
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