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Salary.com Compensation & Pay Equity Law Review

Roundup: Health insurance; New CA employment laws; Employee policy handbooks; Protected leave; IL pay transparency

Newsletter volume 3.1 January 06, 2025

Salary.com Compensation and Pay Equity Law Review

Welcome to Salary.com's 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're asking these questions and even answering some of them:

  • Why is health insurance so complicated and hard to fix?
  • What are the new employment laws coming to California?
  • Do you really need a policy handbook?
  • Why are you spying on your employees on protected leave?
  • What do you need to know about posting the pay in Illinois?
December 31st, 2024

Are Changes to Benefits Coming?

We don't really know how or whether health insurance benefits will change because it's really hard to change health insurance. Here's why. If you want to understand why health insurance is so messed up, here's my take.

January 1st, 2025

What's Coming in California Employment Law?

If you want to know what's coming in employment law, look at what California is doing. It's one of the best crystal balls around. Here are some of the new California employment laws going into effect in January.

January 2nd, 2025

Do You Really Need A Policy Handbook?

This is a nice article from Littler on new employment laws and updates to your policy handbook. But do you really need a policy handbook?

January 3rd, 2025

Leave Employees on Leave Alone

Don't be the leave police. When an employee is out on protected leave, the best approach is to leave them alone to do whatever they need or want to do with that time.

January 6th, 2025

Clarification on Illinois Pay Transparency

The Illinois Department of Labor recently clarified who has to post, under what circumstances, and what is and isn't a proper expression of a pay range. Here are the details on the new guidance for posting pay in Illinois.

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