On February 1, the New York State Department of Labor (“NYSDOL”) adopted regulations (“Regulations”) clarifying the pay transparency provisions of Section 194(4) of the New York Labor Law. The pay transparency section was added to Section 194 as part of a broader amendment to New York State’s equal pay law in January 2016. This pay transparency section provides that employers may not prohibit employees from “inquiring about, discussing, or disclosing” the wages of that employee or another employee, and explains what any company policy on the topic can and cannot ...
Our colleague Nancy L. Gunzenhauser has a Technology Employment Law blog post that will be of interest to many of our health industry readers: “Three States Seek to Bolster Fair Pay Laws.”
Following is an excerpt:
Following on the tails of recent updates in New York and California’s equal pay laws, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and California all have bills pending in their state legislatures that would seek to eliminate pay differentials on the basis of sex and other protected categories. …
While states are leading the charge with updates to equal pay laws, the EEOC is also ...
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