State Pay Equity Compliance for Employers: Addressing Pay Gaps and Conducting Privileged Pay Audits
Recording of a 90-minute CLE video webinar with Q&A
This CLE course will guide employment counsel through the national patchwork of pay equity statutes and discuss recent trends in state equal pay laws, including a detailed analysis of the language and responsibilities of these laws.
Outline
- Definition of the pay gap and how it differs from pay equity
- The state of state laws
- Conducting privileged pay audits
- Best practices for employers and counsel to address potential pay equity issues between employees
Benefits
The panel will review these and other hot topic issues:
- What are the variations in state pay equity laws?
- What groups are protected by pay equity laws?
- How can employers determine whether their hiring and pay setting practices are lawful?
- What steps can employers take to address potential pay equity issues?
Faculty
Stacey A. Bastone
Principal
Jackson Lewis
Ms. Bastone assists companies in the preparation of affirmative action plans for federal contractors including job... | Read More
Ms. Bastone assists companies in the preparation of affirmative action plans for federal contractors including job group analyses, EEO-1 classifications, utilization analyses, compensation analyses and adverse impact analyses.
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Kathryn G. (Katie) Mantoan
Of Counsel
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
Ms. Mantoan is Of Counsel in Orrick's Employment Law & Litigation group, working across the San Francisco and... | Read More
Ms. Mantoan is Of Counsel in Orrick's Employment Law & Litigation group, working across the San Francisco and Portland offices. She focuses on high-stakes employment litigation, compliance counseling, and litigation avoidance measures. Ms. Mantoan's practice has a particular emphasis on complex class actions and developing areas of the law including pay equity and pay transparency, and she co-chairs Orrick's Pay Equity Task Force.
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Christopher T. Patrick
Principal
Jackson Lewis
Mr. Patrick partners with employers on practical solutions to ensure equal employment opportunity (EEO), including... | Read More
Mr. Patrick partners with employers on practical solutions to ensure equal employment opportunity (EEO), including counseling on affirmative action, pay equity and transparency, and diversity. In short, he develops actionable strategies under privilege that identify and eliminate unseen barriers to EEO in personnel practices—often informed by trends in employee data. Mr. Patrick’s work focuses on developing affirmative action programs, proactive pay analyses, diversity analyses, statistical evaluation of employment practices, and defending U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Federal Contracts Compliance Programs (OFCCP) compliance reviews. He has successfully guided many federal contractors through hundreds of OFCCP audits, including Corporate Management Compliance Evaluations, on-site investigations, focused reviews, compensation scrutiny, and hiring discrimination investigations. Mr. Patrick also provides advice and counsel related to potential risks of reduction in force, latent liabilities in target acquisition employment practices, and other analytics in the context of client mergers, acquisitions, and other restructuring.
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