Posts Tagged ‘Regulations’
OFCCP Elects Ombudsman and Launches Contractor Assistance Portal
The latest announcements from the U.S. Deapartment of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) continue its efforts to improve transparency and services to federal contractors required to comply with federal regulations. The OFCCP filled the position of Ombudsman that it announced in September 2018. The new ombudsman service was created in an effort…
Read MorePay Equity Affects Us All
Employers are being challenged by the growth in the number of pay equity laws and regulations being approved by state, regional, and local governments across the country. Entire states have been passing similar laws to help combat the pay disparities that exist between men and women as well as between employees of different races and…
Read MoreGet to Know the San Francisco Equal Pay Ordinance
Several states and cities are passing laws to further bolster the federal Equal Pay Act. The PayParity Post is featuring some of these laws to provide insight into trends in pay equity compliance requirements as more of these laws are considered by states, counties, and municipalities. In this post, we are looking at San Francisco’s…
Read MoreWill Push for Equal Pay in Advertising Translate to Other Industries?
The gender wage gap is still a prominent issue for women in the workforce as we have seen from the various lawsuits surfacing over the last year. In this climate of #MeToo, some groups are pressuring industries and businesses into being more proactive in supporting equal pay in the U.S. One organization, The 3% Movement,…
Read MoreEqual Pay Laws Creating Patchwork of Regulatory Requirements
The push for equal pay is becoming a global initiative. It could be argued that the U.S. is playing catch-up both on the global stage and at home, where states and cities are moving assertively to address the equal pay issue. As with any issue where state and local governments start taking the initiative, as…
Read MoreAFGE Appeals Court Ruling in Efforts to Achieve Equal Pay for Female Doctors
In Little Rock, Ark., American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 2054 has been working for the past four years to earn equal pay for the female physicians at the Department of Veterans Affairs for the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System. And looks like the fight is just heating up. It all started when AFGE,…
Read MoreCanada Proposes New Equal Pay Act
Canada is poised to join the trend of countries passing legislation to close the gender wage gap. In October, the Canada House of Commons held a “First Reading” or introduction of legislation entitled “ the Pay Equity Act.” The Pay Equity Act would require certain federally regulated public and private employers with 10 or more…
Read MoreNew York State Issues Final Guidance on Sexual Harassment Prevention
The New York State Department of Labor and State Division of Human Rights have issued final guidance for the state’s employer policies for workplace harassment that require every employer in the New York State to adopt a sexual harassment prevention policy. As part of the state’s budget bill, which was signed into law in April,…
Read MoreThe OFCCP’s Directive 2018-07 Supports Affirmative Action
The U.S. Department of Labor Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has a new directive to ensure that federal contractors have prepared a written affirmative action program (AAP) and that the program is being updated annually. Directive 2018-07 establishes a program to ensure that federal contractors are complying with their AAP obligations. The OFCCP…
Read MorePay Equity Audits Can Help Organizations Address Equal Pay Liabilities
While there remains a continuing wage gap between men and women, the movement to create a business world in which equal pay is provided to workers undertaking comparable work, regardless of gender, is gaining traction around the world. Add to that list a growing recognition that equal pay is an issue beyond gender. It also…
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