The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the latest of many jurisdictions—including neighboring Vermont as well as Minnesota—to adopt new laws promoting pay equity. At the close of Massachusetts’ ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alonzo Martinez reports on employment laws and trends in HR tech. Pay transparency continues to gain momentum nationwide as ...

More than six decades after the U.S. banned gender-based pay discrimination, American employers continue to pay women less than men. The Equal Pay Act, a federal law prohibiting pay discrimination, ...

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 30: Women's equality activist Lilly Ledbetter after a news conference at the U.S. Capitol January 30, 2019 in Washington, DC. House Democrats held a news conference to ...

Massachusetts moved closer to passing a law that would mandate salary transparency and try to close racial and gender wage gaps after House and Senate leaders reached an agreement Friday on pay equity ...

The recent memo from OPM Acting Director Rob Shriver on pay equity coincidentally was issued within days of a related statement from the Society for Human Resource Management that sets forth a change ...

A nonprofit medical center in California agreed to pay $195,000 to settle allegations that it paid a female physician assistant less than her male counterpart for performing a similar job, despite the ...

Last week’s move by the government to amend pay equity laws, using parliamentary urgency to rush the reforms through, caught opposition parties and New Zealanders off guard. Protests against the Equal ...

Lilly Ledbetter, whose gender pay equity legal fight was the inspiration for the Fair Pay Act of 2009, has died at age 86. Ledbetter died of respiratory failure, her family said in a statement Sunday.

A trailblazer of gender pay equity, Lilly Ledbetter has died. Her legal fight against a former employer brought attention to the issue, and paved the way for the Fair Pay Act of 2009. An unlikely ...