Salary.com Compensation & Pay Equity Law Review

Roundup: Pre-employment assessments; New state and local wage laws; Sexual harassment investigations; Discrimination and harassment; Supreme Court and agencies

Newsletter volume 2.27 July 10, 2024

Salary.com Compensation and Pay Equity Law Review

Our editor, employment lawyer Heather Bussing, is tracking legislation, cases, and analysis to give you the latest critical HR topics. She and Kent Plunkett, CEO of Salary.com, also have a new book out on Pay Equity, Get Pay Right: How to Achieve Pay Equity that Works !

This week we went back through the archives to pull out some of our favorite articles on topics that matter every day. We're answering the questions:

Are your pre-employment assessments biased?
Does your state or city have new wage laws that went into effect July 1?
Why is investigating harassment claims so difficult?
What if we tried to create a discrimination and harassment free workplace instead of arguing about what the law forbids?
Does anybody really know what's going on with employment law after the Supreme Court's latest term?
Does anybody really care? (We do.)

July 2^nd, 2024

Is Your Pre-employment Testing Biased?

If you use personality tests, video interviews, or cognitive assessments, you will want to look at the tools and how you use them. You probably need to do a diversity assessment with your friendly employment lawyer too because they may eliminate disabled candidates or people of color. And that's discrimination.

July 3^rd, 2024

New Wages Laws Went Into Effect July 1

July 1 is a big day in compensation circles. The new DOL salary thresholds for exemption from overtime went into effect. There are also new state and local minimum wage increases too.

July 4^th, 2024

Why Investigating Harassment Claims is Hard

Harassment investigations can help, but often make things worse. Here's what you need to know about and how to handle the situation.

July 9^th, 2024

Creating a Discrimination and Harassment Free Workplace

It's easy to get caught up in definitions, interpretations, and guidance on what is and isn't discrimination and harassment. That's why it's better to frame it as creating a discrimination and harassment free workplace. That's the goal. And that's the law.

July 10^th, 2024

The Supreme Court is Making Law

I've been doing this law thing for over 30 years and I've never seen the Supreme Court say so many times in just a few years, "Whoops, we were wrong all along. You know that decision that's been the basis for legal advice for decades? It was a big mistake. Sorry. New rules. Again!."

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