Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn In March of 2022, United States President Joe Biden signed an “Executive Order on Advancing Economy, Efficiency, and Effectiveness in Federal Contracting by Promoting Pay Equity and Transparency” to eliminate discriminatory pay practices that inhibit the economy, efficiency, and effectiveness of the U.S. Federal workforce and the…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On September 7, 2021, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) – an agency that enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination to advance opportunity in the workplace – announced that multinational computer technology company Dell, Inc. would pay $75,000 and provide other relief to settle an equal…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On March 26, 2021, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) – which enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination – filed a lawsuit that claimed a School District in New York violated federal law by paying lower wages to a female superintendent than to a male superintendent…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On February 3, 2021, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) – an agency that advances opportunity in the workplace by enforcing federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination – announced that two hotel management firms would pay $400,000 and provide extensive non-monetary relief to settle an equal pay…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) – which is part of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) – has entered into agreements with two California-based federal technology contractors to resolve allegations of systemic pay discrimination against 391 female employees in several states. While not admitting…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On October 1, 2020, Maryland House Bill 123 (HB 123) will take effect and prohibit employers in the state from requesting or relying on the salary history of job applicants to make decisions about employment or initial pay in most circumstances, and require an employer to provide…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On September 4, 2020, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) – a federal agency that advances opportunity in the workplace by enforcing federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination – announced that a non-profit health care system would pay $104,707 and provide other relief to settle an equal…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On September 1, 2020, the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations (PCHR) began enforcing the Wage Equity Ordinance to make it illegal for employers to ask applicants applying for a job in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania about their current or prior salary history or to use that information to determine…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On February 27, 2020, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) – a federal agency that advances opportunity in the workplace by enforcing federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination – announced that a winter recreational vehicle (RV) manufacturer has agreed to pay $20,000 to settle an equal pay…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On February 6, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled in Greater Philadelphia Chamber Commerce v. City of Philadelphia (Nos. 18-2175 & 18-2176) that the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, could ban employers from asking applicants about their salary history in a decision…
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