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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act became effective at the beginning of 2021, but employers across the state continue to have questions about the scope of the new law. While the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment has attempted to provide clarity around the job posting and pay transparency provisions in the Act – adopting Equal Pay Transparency Rules, issuing its Statement of Basis, Purpose, Specific Statutory Authority, and Findings, and providing its Interpretive Notice and Formal Opinion #9 – there remain some ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Along with a host of other laws across the country,[1] Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (“Act”) went into effect on January 1, 2021. Among other measures, the Act requires all employers— located anywhere in the United States—with at least one employee in Colorado to (i) provide Colorado-based employees with formal notice of internal opportunities for promotion[2] on the same calendar day the opening occurs, and (ii) disclose salary compensation and employee benefits in job postings for positions that are expected to...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Equal pay provisions The Equal Pay for Equal Work Act consists of two parts. The first part prohibits employers from paying employees differently for substantially similar work on the basis of their sex (or their sex in combination with other protected categories) unless the pay differential falls into one of the six statutory exceptions. Employers can avoid liability by demonstrating  each of the following: That the disparity is based on (1) a seniority system; (2) a merit system; (3) a system that measures earnings by quantity o...

Hawaii Tuesday, December 15, 2020 As we (thankfully) reach the end of 2020, we wanted to provide a year-end update on recent and upcoming state law developments.  Despite the fact that state and local governments had their hands full with the COVID-19 pandemic (and passed many laws relating to that topic, which we will not cover here), they managed to crank out an impressive number of non-COVID-related employment laws. As always, now is a good time for employers to take a deep breath, look around, assess their policies for compliance, and make any necessary updates to their handboo...

ColoradoBiz Magazine A guide to the better-known and lesser-known changes December 9, 2020 2021 is a year of excitement for many expecting to clear the COVID-19 pandemic. It is also a crucial year for Colorado’s employers, who must immediately work to understand the most massive changes to Colorado’s employment laws in recent history, which we have outlined below. The Better-Knowns Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (SB19-085) (EPEWA) is effective January 1, 2021. This act builds upon the federal Equal Pay Act passed in 1963 prohibiting a wage differential based on sex (including g...