San Francisco DA Cracks Down on DoorDash in New Complaint
In an explosive court filing on June 16, the District Attorney for the City and County of San Francisco alleged that the app-based delivery...
EEOC to Employers: Be Proactive on Addressing Instances of Age Discrimination
A number of federal, state, and local laws make it illegal to discriminate against a job candidate or employee on the basis of age....
Lessons Learned from Oracle’s Equal Pay Saga
Oracle’s equal pay saga illustrates how a proactive pay equity strategy is better than adopting a reactive approach—to the tune of millions of dollars,...
How Pay Equity Audits Can Help Companies Avoid Racial Discrimination
As the historian Howard Zinn said, “you can’t be neutral on a moving train.” The waves of community outreach, protests, and activism following the...
LGBT Rights Decision: What it Means and What to Do
It was a momentous and watershed moment in the history of the Supreme Court of the United States when the opinion was announced on...
Has 50 Years of Equal Pay Legislation Done Enough to Level...
Bound by a red ribbon, it is tucked away in the United Kingdom’s Parliamentary Archives. The paper on which it is printed is yellowing...
Under COVID-19, Progress Toward Gender Equality in the Workplace is at Risk
New data suggest that the economic downturn associated with COVID-19 has disproportionately affected women. A pair of articles in the Economist and Bloomberg News...
The 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...
Localizing Compensation and Pay Equity Audits
Facebook recently announced that employees who expect to work from home for the long term will receive localized pay adjustments based on where they...
A Pay Equity Strategy Should Start at Home: Recommendations for Sharing Equal Work
It has been over thirty years since the sociologist Arlie Hochschild wrote her landmark work, The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at...
UberBLACK Drivers to be Classified as Employees
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has reversed its decision regarding the classification of UberBLACK drivers and thus the Uber saga...
Despite 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...
No Pay Data, No Pay Gap Benchmarks. Conduct a Pay Equity Audit Now
Under the stewardship of Trump-appointee Janet Dhillon, the EEOC is rolling back federal pay reporting requirements. This returns the United States to the back...
Equal Pay Audits Should Include Consideration of Equity-Based Pay
Too often, when business executives consider pay equity, they think about two factors: base compensation (e.g., salary) and rewards-based compensation (e.g., bonuses). A recent...
A Pay Equity Audit is Essential to Your Coronavirus Business Recovery
A growing consensus envisions that the reopened economy that we will return to will have been altered for the foreseeable future from the one...
How an Equal Pay Case in the U.K. Could Affect Your Organization
A high-profile equal pay case in the U.K. just had an important update. The legal theories at issue could have a significant impact on...
