This Training reviews trends on equal pay and wage transparency laws and salary history bans. It reviews relevant compensation reporting and job posting requirements. It provides an overview of conducting self-evaluation audits, ways to protect privileges better, determining substantially similar duties, and avoiding steering/channeling employees into certain roles that create wage gaps. The Training also reviews possible affirmative defenses to equal pay claims and potential legal exposure.
Topics covered:
- Reviewing trends on equal pay, salary inquiry bans, and wage transparency
- Assessing relevant compensation reporting obligations
- Ensuring compliant job postings with ranges
- Identifying and correcting pay disparities through self-evaluation audits
- Maintaining attorney-client and work product privilege
- Determining “substantially similar” duties and assessing comparable “skills, effort, responsibilities”
- Considering affirmative defenses, treble damages, multi-year lookbacks, and individual liability
- Avoid steering/channeling employees into certain roles that create wage gaps
Training components that are specific to NJ include:
- Diane B. Allen Equal Pay Act
- NJ’s Salary Inquiry Ban
- Legal trends, including awarding treble damages and the 6-year lookback
Location: On-site or virtual
Length: 2 hours
KSB Law conducts Equal Pay Audits & Legal Assessments and can assist Employers with updating policies and practices in the areas covered in this Training. Modifications to the training session can be made to meet the employer’s priorities.
