Posts Tagged ‘Pay Gap Risk Assessment’
Component 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 MoreThe Impacts of Working from Home on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
As the pandemic rages on, many companies have implemented working from home orders extending into 2021. The situation has been difficult for employees, and has had disproportionate effects on employees of color. In March, when stay at home orders were widely implemented across the United States, workers of color faced a unique challenge, particularly with…
Read MoreNew Surveys Show That Racial Inequality Still Persists in the Workplace
Are practices promoting racial equality in the workplace really the best practices? Not many employees of color would agree. The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) conducted two surveys, wherein black workers and white workers in the United States were polled on their experiences in the office as they pertain to race. These experiences included…
Read MoreThe Role of Audits and Analyses on the Future of Pay Equity
As the world continues to progress and policies change, companies are forced to recognize and address trends. Disparities with regard to equal pay reflect a current topic that is gaining a great deal of traction in the media as well as in politics. Pay equity policies have been particularly at the forefront of debate as…
Read MoreDEI Measurement, Analysis, & Implementation During COVID-19
7 minute read: COVID-19’s Assault on Equality It is well-known that the global COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated inequalities by race/ethnicity, gender, education level, and income. Here in Los Angeles, the mortality rate for the least affluent communities is four times larger than that in the most affluent communities. Black and Hispanic/Latinx death rates are more…
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 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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