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What It Takes to Be a Fair-Pay Workplace

Pay equity is more than just a competitive tool in a red-hot labor market. It’s an opportunity to foster innovation, drive employee engagement, minimize turnover, maintain (or improve) brand reputation, and attract investors. ...

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75% of employees are more likely to apply for a job when the company is known for pay transparency. https://t.co/8Nxjf98mMi
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What It Takes to Be a Fair-Pay Workplace

What It Takes to Be a Fair-Pay Workplace

Pay equity is more than just a competitive tool in a red-hot labor market. It’s an opportunity to foster innovation, drive employee engagement, minimize turnover, maintain (or improve) ...

What HR Practitioners Need to Know About Gender Pay Equity – by Beverly Tarulli, PhD

What HR Practitioners Need to Know About Gender Pay Equity – by Beverly Tarulli, PhD

It was 58 years ago, in 1963, when U.S. President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law. With limited exceptions, it prohibited employers from discriminating between employees ...

COVID-19 RECOVERY SERIES: Time for Transparency: A Post-COVID America Where Employers Report Wage Data by Gender and Race

COVID-19 RECOVERY SERIES: Time for Transparency: A Post-COVID America Where Employers Report Wage Data by Gender and Race

By Evelyn Murphy In 1963, President John F. Kennedy drew the nation’s attention to the gender wage gap after signing the groundbreaking Equal Pay Act. Women, he said, earned 60 cents for ...

Overstating gender pay gap makes women feel like victims, not victors

Overstating gender pay gap makes women feel like victims, not victors

When it comes to Equal Pay Day, many stats do women a disservice by reinforcing misleading data about gender earnings gap, says Carrie Sheffield. There is work to do to fully empower and ...

U.S. Pay Data Effort Could Fall Short Without Public Scrutiny

U.S. Pay Data Effort Could Fall Short Without Public Scrutiny

Like the U.K., the U.S. is now collecting detailed race and gender pay data from thousands of companies in an effort to eliminate discrimination in compensation. But unlike the U.K ...

7 Lessons from the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team’s Fight for Equal Pay

7 Lessons from the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team’s Fight for Equal Pay

Employees facing discrimination can follow their example.

The Leaders Championing the Gender Equality at Work Movement

The Leaders Championing the Gender Equality at Work Movement

The long history of gender pay inequality dates back to WWI in the early 1900s when women took on men's jobs when they were fighting in the army abroad. During this period, women were ...

Why Knowing How Much Your Colleagues Earn Could Be a Good Thing

Why Knowing How Much Your Colleagues Earn Could Be a Good Thing

New data points to the direct role of pay transparency in tackling entrenched pay disparities.

Closing the Gender Pay Gap

Closing the Gender Pay Gap

Read our latest post from Shearman & Sterling partner Doreen E. Lilienfeld and associate Matthew Behrens.

How To Close The Gender Pay Gap Once And For All

How To Close The Gender Pay Gap Once And For All

Women and men need to work together to close the gender pay gap, ultimately to the benefit of society at-large.

Gendered Ageism: Trend Brief

Gendered Ageism: Trend Brief

Older workers face stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination in the workplace. Women experience the consequences of ageism earlier than men and in unique ways.

Activision Blizzard confirms SEC investigation into sexual misconduct allegations

Activision Blizzard confirms SEC investigation into sexual misconduct allegations

World’s most high-profile video game companies says it is complying with subpoena sent to employees and executives

The Far-Reaching Effects of the Gender Pay Gap

The Far-Reaching Effects of the Gender Pay Gap

HR Technology and Strategic HCM Advisor Steve Goldberg breaks down the impacts of pay inequity and inequality—and how technology offers solutions to fix it.

Court gives green light to Riot Games $100 million settlement

Court gives green light to Riot Games $100 million settlement

Agreement offers some recompense to women who worked at Riot from 2014-2021