Labor and Employment Law Blog

2023: The Year Pay Transparency Becomes a Much Bigger Deal

The continuing trend of state and local government regulating more aspects of the employment relationship continues, and this time the focus is on pay transparency. These new laws require employers to disclose the pay they offer in job postings. Colorado was first on the scene in 2021. Since then, California and Washington have adopted new […]

November 15, 2022 | 1 min read | Tagged: California, Colorado, EEO-1 Reports, Employees, EPEW, Equal Pay For Equal Work, Job Posts, New York, Pay Data Reports, Pay Range, Pay Transparency, Record Keeping, Reporting, Wage & Hour, Washington

John Lomax Partner

Brian Mills Partner

Kevin M. Brown Associate

Delilah R. Cassidy Associate

Caitlin E. White Associate

OSHA-Reportable Injuries: Not All Employee Hospitalizations Are Created Equal

When it comes to OSHA-reportable fatalities and injuries, there are some important exceptions in the regulation that employers should be aware of. An OSHA-reportable in-patient hospitalization is limited to a formal, in-patient admission to a hospital or clinic for care or treatment. However, the regulation explicitly exempts in-patient hospitalizations that involve mere observation or diagnostic […]

October 17, 2019 | 1 min read | Tagged: Employees, OSHA, Reporting

Amelia A. Esber Former Associate

UPDATE: Employers Must File EEO-1 Reports for 2017 and 2018

The EEOC announced last week that employers must file their EEO-1 Component 2 data for calendar years 2017 and 2018 by September 30. The wage data must be broken down by race, sex, and ethnicity. The EEO-1 survey can be found here. As we previously reported on here and here, Judge Tanya Chutkan had directed the […]

May 7, 2019 | 1 min read | Tagged: Chutkan, EEO-1, EEOC Guidance, Equal Pay, Obama, Pay Data, Reporting, Reporting Requirements

Adiba Jurayeva Former Associate

UPDATE: Court Confirms that Employers Are to Provide Pay Data to EEOC by Sep. 30

On April 25, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan issued a ruling accepting the EEOC’s proposal (which we previously reported on here) that employers who file EEO-1 reports must submit wage data broken down by race, sex, and ethnicity by Sep. 30, 2019. In addition, Judge Chutkan ordered the EEOC to collect a second year of […]

April 26, 2019 | 1 min read | Tagged: Chutkan, EEO, EEO-1, EEOC Guidance, Equal Pay, Obama, Pay Data, Reporting, Reporting Requirements, Trump

Joseph A. Kroeger, P.C. Partner

EEOC Sets Deadline of Sep. 30 for Employers To Submit Pay Data

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has just announced that it will require employers who file EEO-1 reports (typically employers with at least 100 employees and federal contractors with 50 or more employees and at least $50,000 in contracts) to submit wage data broken down by race, sex, and ethnicity by Sep. 30, 2019. This […]

April 4, 2019 | 1 min read | Tagged: Chutkan, District of Columbia, EEO, EEO-1, EEOC Guidance, Equal Pay, Obama, Pay Data, Reporting, Reporting Requirements, Trump

Joseph A. Kroeger, P.C. Partner

Occupational Opaqueness: The Uncertain Future of OSHA Regulation and the Electronic Recordkeeping and Reporting Rule

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is still without an agency head six months into the presidency of Donald Trump. As such, the future of OSHA is unclear in light of the president’s promises of less government intervention and less regulation. Should these promises be implemented in the realm of occupational safety and health, […]

August 1, 2017 | 1 min read | Tagged: Recordkeeping, Reporting, Trump

Amelia A. Esber Former Associate