Eye on Pay Equity: Keeping Up With Recent Developments

The trend of increased legislation, regulation, and corporate initiatives focused on identifying and correcting pay disparities in the workplace has continued to grow. Several recent and significant developments include the White House’s announcement of the Equal Pay Pledge, through which 28 companies have made a commitment to conduct annual company-wide pay equity analyses in an effort to reduce the pay gap; the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s publication of a new fact sheet on its proposal to collect pay data; and the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs’ issuance of a final rule on sex discrimination, which covers a variety of topics, including compensation discrimination.