Kate Gold

Kate Gold is a partner in the Labor & Employment Law Department in the Los Angeles office.

Kate has over 25 years of experience representing clients in a range of industries, across all areas of employment law. An experienced litigator, she has represented clients in all types of employment-related suits, including class and collective actions, discrimination, retaliation and harassment, non-compete and wage/hour matters. In addition to litigating, she conducts high-level workplace investigations and routinely counsels clients on matters involving the full range of state and federal employment issues.

Firm/Organization: Proskauer Rose LLP

Blogs: California Employment Law Update, Law and the Workplace, Proskauer Whistleblower Defense

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Law and the Workplace

EEOC Posts Forms and Guidance for New EEO-1 Reporting Requirements

By Guy Brenner, Kate Gold & Jordan Simon on July 3, 2019

In an effort to assist employers, the EEOC has posted guidance and sample forms for the new EEO-1 Component 2 Compensation Data reporting requirements on its website. The new materials provide useful information for employers to comply with the new reporting requirement. As we have previously reported, employers must now report employee pay data and hours worked, by job category, in addition to the usual workforce demographic information. The EEOC informed employers this spring…

Law and the Workplace

The EEO-1 Saga Continues — An Appeal, Additional Requirements, and More…

By Guy Brenner & Kate Gold on May 6, 2019

Employers would be forgiven for feeling figurative whiplash from all of the developments surrounding the EEO-1 in recent weeks. After understanding they would not have to submit pay data with their EEO-1 submissions (referred to as “Component 2 data”), in a series of rulings. Judge Tanya Chutkan reinstated the obligation. Since then, employers have been reading tea leaves and following developments, trying to figure what will be required of them and by when. And while…

Law and the Workplace

EEOC Issues Statement Regarding EEO-1

By Guy Brenner & Kate Gold on April 30, 2019

On April 29, 2019, the EEOC issued the following statement regarding the recent EEO-1 developments: Notice of Immediate Reinstatement of Revised EEO-1: Pay Data Collection EEO-1 filers should begin preparing to submit Component 2 data for calendar year 2018 by September 30, 2019, in light of the court’s recent decision in National Women’s Law Center, et al., v. Office of Management and Budget, et al., Civil Action No. 17-cv-2458 (D.D.C.). The EEOC expects to begin collecting…

Law and the Workplace

Judge Orders Employers to Submit Pay Data on Revised EEO-1 Form by September 30, 2019

By Guy Brenner, Kate Gold & Jordan Simon on April 26, 2019

Introduction: On April 25, 2019, Judge Tanya Chutkan ordered the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to collect detailed data on employee compensation and hours worked from covered employers sorted by job category, pay band, race, ethnicity, and gender (“Component 2” of the EEO-1 form) by September 30, 2019. The reporting requirement applies to all employers with more than 100 employees. The Component 2 requirement had been adopted during the Obama Administration but its implementation…

Proskauer Whistleblower Defense

LA Jury Awards Whistleblower $1.5 Million

By Steven J. Pearlman, Kate Gold & Pinchos Goldberg on March 12, 2019

On February 28, 2019, a Los Angeles jury issued a verdict of $1.5 million in damages to a former employee who alleged his employer retaliated against him for reporting misconduct in violation of the False Claims Act (“FCA”), 31 U.S.C. § 3730(h), the Defense Contractor Whistleblower Protection Act (“DCWPA”), 10 U.S.C. § 2409, and California’s whistleblower statute, California Labor Code section 1102.5. Lillie v. ManTech Int’l Corp, No. 17-cv-02538 (C.D. Cal.). The verdict form can…

Kate Gold

EEOC Posts Forms and Guidance for New EEO-1 Reporting Requirements

The EEO-1 Saga Continues — An Appeal, Additional Requirements, and More…

EEOC Issues Statement Regarding EEO-1

Judge Orders Employers to Submit Pay Data on Revised EEO-1 Form by September 30, 2019

LA Jury Awards Whistleblower $1.5 Million

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