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Category: Compensation

Massachusetts Latest State To Require Pay Ranges in Job Postings

Massachusetts has become the latest state to require covered employers to post salary ranges in their job listings. H.4890, signed into law by Governor Healey on July 31, 2024, will require employers with 25 or more employees in Massachusetts to disclose pay ranges in job postings and provide a pay range to employees to whom they offer a transfer or...
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Category: State and Local Law

California Overhauls Its Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA)

On July 1, 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 2288/Senate Bill 92, which amends the state’s controversial Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA). PAGA allows employees to sue their employers for labor code violations and recover monetary rewards on behalf of themselves, other aggrieved employees, and the state. The PAGA revisions—which apply retroactively to PAGA civil actions brought on...
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Category: State and Local Law

CWC Interstate: July 2024 Update

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, presents a new Interstate memo that reports on state and local compliance requirements and laws enacted since May 2024. Some of the laws on which we report relate to the effects of technology, specifically artificial intelligence (AI) discrimination in California and biometric privacy in Illinois. Other laws concern wages,...
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

New Illinois Pay Reporting Recertification Notices Mistakenly Request Data From Wrong Year

The Illinois Department of Labor (IDOL) is issuing notices to remind employers that they must obtain a new Equal Pay Registration Certificate (EPRC) in 2024 if they obtained their initial EPRC in 2022. However, the state’s reminders included the wrong date for the employee-level compensation data that they must submit. Some of IDOL’s recertification notice emails to employers erroneously stated...
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Category: Artificial Intelligence

New Online Resource Covering State and Local Workplace-Related AI Laws

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, has launched a State and Local AI Laws resource online. This new resource is designed to keep our members apprised of the growing number of state and local laws that govern the use of artificial intelligence in making employment decisions. Among the laws summarized in CWC’s new resource are...
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Category: Artificial Intelligence

Colorado First State To Enact Expansive Law Governing Workplace Use of High Risk AI Systems

Colorado has enacted a first-of-its-kind state law (SB 24-205) that establishes comprehensive compliance obligations for covered employers that use high-risk artificial intelligence systems to assist in employment-related decisions. Subject to numerous exceptions, the statute defines “high-risk” AI systems as artificial intelligence systems that make or are a substantial factor in making a consequential decision. The statute defines a "consequential decision”...
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Category: State and Local Law

CWC Interstate: May 2024 Update

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, presents a round-up of employment-related state and local laws that have come to its attention since its last update in April. Topics involving more than one state include paid leave in Illinois, Maryland, and New York; and the addition of protected classes to equal pay laws in both Maryland...
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Category: Compensation

Washington State’s Pay Transparency Law Is Spurring Litigation

Two recent lawsuits brought under Washington state’s salary range disclosure law offer insights into various possible outcomes under the statute as lawsuits begin playing out in court. In Atkinson v. Aaron’s LLC, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington dismissed a job applicant’s claim, finding that he lacked standing to sue because he had not suffered a...
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Category: State and Local Law

CWC Interstate: April 2024 Update

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, presents its most recent Interstate memo to help its members stay on top of ever-evolving state and local workplace compliance developments. CWC’s latest update of employment-related state and local laws covers notable developments since February. Topics involving more than one state included paid leave and the posting of required...
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

Eleventh Circuit Rules Florida’s “Stop WOKE Act” Cannot Be Enforced Against DEI Training

Florida still cannot enforce its Individual Freedom Act, nicknamed the “Stop WOKE Act,” after a federal appeals court upheld a federal district court’s preliminary injunction. In Honeyfund v. Florida, 11th Cir. (March 4, 2024), a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the preliminary injunction granted by the U.S. District Court for the Northern...

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