Posts Tagged ‘Wage Discrimination’
Rhode Island’s New Pay Equity Law at a Glance
Rhode Island is joining the wave of pay equity legislation growing across the country with the passage of its Senate Bill S0270. Effective Jan. 1, 2023, the law aims to ensure fairness in compensation for all employees and offers recourse for workers who have experienced wage discrimination from their employers. Below we have outlined what…
Read MoreNew Colorado Equal Pay Rules Proposed
3 minute read Earlier this year, Trusaic highlighted Colorado’s aggressive new equal pay law set to take effect on January 1, 2021, the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (“EPEWA”). Now, we have recently released proposed rules from Colorado’s Department of Labor and Employment, providing employers much needed guidance concerning EPEWA compliance. This post specifically…
Read MoreThe Difficulty in Identifying Comparators for Equal Pay Claims
Pay equity litigation is proceeding apace despite the COVID-19 pandemic, and claimants are raising critical issues pertaining to the Equal Pay Act of 1963 (“EPA”). The EPA requires that an employee claiming gender-based wage discrimination first demonstrate that employees of the opposite sex were paid different wages for substantially equal work. To show that the…
Read MoreDespite Dismissal at Court, USWNT Continues Pay Equity Claim
It was a stunning defeat for a team that has seemed at times invincible—but it was not on the soccer pitch. On Friday May 1, 2020, a federal district court judge dismissed the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team’s (USWNT) claim of unequal pay against the United States Soccer Federation (USSF). Undaunted, the USWNT has appealed…
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