Posts Tagged ‘SB 973’
DFEH Adds New Guidance for SB 973 Reporting Due on March 31
3 minute read California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) recently released additional FAQs to assist employers in submitting pay data reporting under SB 973 to the DFEH. Under SB 973, beginning this year, private employers with at least 100 employees and required to file an annual Employer Information Report (EEO-1) are required to…
Read MoreLooking 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 More2021 Pay Data Reporting & Enforcement of the CA Equal Pay Act
4 minute read With new pay data reporting legislation underway––and the first annual reporting deadline in March 2021 fast approaching––it’s important to take a look at what SB 973 (California’s Pay Data Reporting) means for employers, not only in terms of reporting but enforcement. According to the law, SB 973 authorizes the Department of Fair…
Read MorePay Data Reporting Goes into Effect January 2021
3 minute read Following the signing of California Senate Bill 973 (“SB 973”) into law on September 30, 2020, mandatory CA pay data reporting will take effect on January 1, 2021. The new requirements under SB 973 (California’s Pay Data Reporting) are positioned to have far-reaching implications for pay equity and pay data reporting both in…
Read MoreWorld Cup Champions U.S. Women’s Soccer Team Fights for Pay Equity
3 minute read “Men are so often paid and compensated on the potential that they show, not necessarily what they’ve done… And women are so often paid on what they’ve actually done…” Megan Rapinoe, U.S. Women’s Soccer Team, NPR Interview. As issues of gender and racial inequality took center stage in 2020, leaders in leagues…
Read MoreDemocracy, Data, and DEI: How the New President Will Transform the Pay Equity Landscape
3 minute read President-elect Biden made inclusion and equity a focal point of the Democratic big-tent strategy during the 2020 presidential election. Even as political striations appeared in national down-ballot races, President-Elect Biden’s decisive victory (and the passing of progressive policies and local ballot measures in various states across the US) are factors that provide…
Read MoreThe 2021 Fortune 500 List Will Include D&I Rankings
2 minute read Innovation, vision, and design have come to be synonymous with industry leaders who have made the Fortune 500 list. Categorized by revenue, and first published in 1955, Fortune’s list of companies has long been the barometer of the values and characteristics that define success. With the announcement that the 2021 Fortune 500…
Read MoreDoing Business in California Requires Pay Equity
4 minute read California is home to one of the United States’ most critical economic engines, from Silicon Valley to big agriculture to the Disney Parks. California would be the fifth-largest economy in the world, if it were its own country, according to Forbes. Yet many employers may not be aware that regulating this massive…
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 MoreDell Continues to Face Challenges with Pay Equity
3 minute read The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) continues to be steadfast in its efforts to enforce pay equity, as a recent case with Dell demonstrates. The case involves the computer tech giant and two IT analysts who were hired at the same time. Kea Golden and a male colleague who carried out the…
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