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Keeping Pace with Pay Transparency: Recent Updates and What’s Ahead for Employers
Pay transparency laws continue to expand across the United States, creating new compliance obligations for employers that post jobs, recruit candidates, set compensation ranges, or maintain pay records across multiple…
Pay Equity Advisor Blog
Preparing for California’s Shift to SOC-Based Pay Data Reporting
By Laura A. Mitchell, Christopher T. Patrick
California’s May 2027 pay data reports will use 23 job categories based on the federal Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system, replacing the 10 EEO-1 categories used in prior reports. Employers…
Canadian Labour and Employment Law
Canada at Work: Employment Law Trends Shaping 2026
By Andrew Shaw, Ryan Carroll, David McIsaac
Canada's employment law landscape continues to evolve rapidly. From new AI disclosure requirements in hiring and expanding pay transparency obligations to increased scrutiny of independent contractors and proposed restrictions on…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
Illinois Tightens EPRC Data Standards as State Begins Analyzing Pay Submissions
By By: James A. Patton Jr., Kristi S. Nelson Foy, Publisher, Jennifer L. Colvin
Quick Hits Beginning in January 2027, the IDOL will no longer allow employers to use “prefers not to identify” for reported employees’ race/ethnicity. The IDOL notes an academic study that…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
The Potential Cost of ‘Quiet Promotion’
In the early 2020s, the internet was abuzz with the term “quiet quitting,” a phrase referring to employees who were disengaged from their work and doing the bare minimum to…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
Equal Pay in Germany: Closing the Gap, but Not to the Top
By By: Julia S. Kulmegies, LL.M. (Tongji Shanghai 同济大学)
Quick Hits If an employee earns less than a male colleague who performs the same or equivalent work, gender-based disadvantage is presumed under German employment law. Employers may rebut this…
Agricultural Law & Rural Practice | Solo Small Firm & General Practice Section
If EEO-1 Reporting Ends, Should Employers Continue Collecting Workforce Demographic Data?
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently proposed eliminating the requirement for covered employers to provide workforce demographic information through the annual EEO-1 Report. If finalized, the change would…
The Employer Report
Federal Retreat, State Expansion: The New Workforce Data Landscape for US Employers
By Caroline Burnett, Robin Samuel
Federal EEO-1 reporting may be heading for a major reset — but employers should be careful not to mistake federal uncertainty for a broader retreat from workforce pay-data obligations. The…
Agricultural Law & Rural Practice | Solo Small Firm & General Practice Section
Pay Transparency 2.0: Key Employer Takeaways on the Shift in PayTransparency Compliance
By Milt Castro
Compliance with pay transparency laws is no longer as simple as adding a salary range to a job posting and moving on. As state pay transparency requirements and compliance obligations…
Consumer Financial Services Law Monitor
Rebalancing the Books: Employment Compliance for Financial Services Companies
By Taylor Gess, Tracey Diamond, Emily Schifter
In this special crossover episode of The Consumer Finance Podcast and Hiring to Firing, hosts Taylor Gess, Tracey Diamond, and Emily Schifter map out obligations hiding in plain sight for…