Posts Tagged ‘Pay Data’
Act Now to Meet SB 1162 Pay Data Reporting Requirements
The clock is ticking. For employers doing business in California (which encompasses a significant number of employers around the country), the deadline for submitting SB 1162’s required pay data report including annual mean and median pay data is looming—Wednesday, May 10, 2023. However, the California Civil Rights Department (CRD) has proposed a two-month extension for…
Read MoreThe Importance of Data Retention as It Relates to Pay Data Reporting
A rise in the number of pay disclosure laws around the country is exposing employers to increasing incidences of bias suits, according to Bloomberg Law. As employee salaries become more visible, employees who feel they’re not being paid fairly are more likely to file pay discrimination lawsuits, which leads to increasing pay data reporting requirements…
Read MoreIllinois SB 1480 Pay Data Reporting Law Gets Amended
The state government of Illinois recently enacted sweeping changes to its equal pay laws. Originally signed into law right before Equal Pay Day 2021, Illinois SB 1480 was amended by SB 1487 on June 25, 2021 to provide greater clarification on how Illinois employers must comply with the new equal pay obligations. There are three…
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 MoreBiden Executive Order on DEI Has Serious Implications for Employers
Employers should take note of an Executive Order related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) made by President Biden on his first day in office. While the order applies only to departments and agencies of the Federal Government, it’s likely to have a far-reaching impact on private-sector employers as well. For context, Executive Order 13985…
Read MoreDFEH No Longer Accepting Pay Data Reporting Extensions
California SB 973 requires employers to submit pay data information on their workforce by March 31, annually. Did your business meet the deadline? Employers that did not meet the deadline for submitting annual pay data reporting for the 2020 tax year to the Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) may be able to submit…
Read MoreHR.com Report Finds Employers Have Room to Improve on DEI Initiatives
HR.com recently issued a report on a survey they ran regarding employers’ outlook towards Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives for 2021. The report, The Future of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion 2021, includes survey data collected between December 2020 and January 2021 from 374 HR professionals across the world, with the majority residing in North…
Read MoreFLSA Rule on Worker Classification to be Reversed
The Biden administration is making strides to reverse a Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) final rule on worker classification that was signed into law by the Trump administration during its last days in office. The final rule, Independent Contractor Status Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, was supposed to take effect on March 8, 2021,…
Read MoreHow to Prepare for the ESG Reckoning: Three Essential Steps
When two founding members of Bain Capital’s impact investing fund sound the alarm that An ESG Reckoning Is Coming, employers should take note. Michael O’Leary and Warren Valdmanis cover a lot of ground in their new article for the Harvard Business review, from Nikola’s disastrously fake zero-emission semi-truck commercial to Former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s…
Read MoreIllinois Equal Pay Act To Require Employer Pay Data Reporting
The state government of Illinois recently enacted sweeping changes to its equal pay laws. On March 23, right before Equal Pay Day 2021, Illinois Governor Jay Pritzker signed SB 1480 into law. There are three critical parts to SB 1480: 1) the “Equal Pay Registration Certificate”; 2) public-facing employee demographic data reports, and 3) a…
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