How To Navigate The Growing Patchwork Of Pay Equity And Transparency Laws
HR.com
How To Navigate The Growing Patchwork Of Pay Equity And Transparency Laws
HR.com
Andrew Turnbull and Sadé Tidwell authored an article for HR.com discussing how employers should assess their compliance strategies to mitigate the risk of pay discrimination claims and compliance violations as they attempt to navigate the growing patchwork of pay equity and transparency laws throughout the United States.
“Employers with multistate operations or with remote roles should consider their overall strategy for complying with disparate pay transparency laws,” the authors wrote. “This might include balancing a company-wide approach with a more surgical approach for compliance with the most onerous laws. Regardless of whether the approach is company-wide or targeted, employers should create and document pay ranges for job postings, create processes and procedures for updating job posting templates, and monitor job postings and laws for ongoing compliance. Besides having a reasonable or good-faith basis to support posted pay ranges, employers also might consider how job seekers or current employees might view those ranges. If a company’s pay is below market, nothing prevents it from providing more information about its pay package than what is legally required to be more attractive to job seekers. Employers also should consider proactively communicating pay ranges to current employees who may be at or below the current salary ranges due to salary compression issues that may have been magnified during the Great Resignation. Training HR, recruiters, and hiring managers on compliance also is key.”
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