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The City of San Francisco (SF) is the latest governmental entity to join the trend towards prohibiting employers from asking job seekers about current or prior salary or wage rate or pegging starting pay to prior pay. The SF Ordinance is based on the following premise:
The problematic practices of seeking salary history from job…
About a year ago, five prominent members of the U.S. Women’s Soccer team filed an EEOC charge claiming they were unfairly paid as compared to their male counterparts on the U.S. Men’s Soccer team. That charge is still pending.
As we previously blogged, the U.S. Women’s National Hockey team upped the fair pay ante…
Utah state senator, Jake Anderegg (R-Lehi), has introduced a multifaceted bill (S.B. 210) – the “Employee Performance Act” – requiring equal pay for equal work. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, Utah is one of six states without an equal pay law. If passed, the bill would apply to Utah employers with…
The case for pay transparency was best epitomized by Lilly Ledbetter, namesake for the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. She was unaware her male peers were paid more than her until she received an anonymous note telling her she was earning significantly less money than men in the same position. Since the enactment of the…
