Salary.com Compensation & Pay Equity Law Review

Roundup: Workers' Compensation and Stress Claims; States Pushback on DEI; Court Rulings on DEI EO's; Pay Transparency; AI Discrimination laws

Newsletter volume 3.10 March 10, 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:

What are the legal remedies when an employee develops mental health issues at work?
What's the latest with DEI and the courts?
Is discrimination still illegal?
What's coming with pay transparency?
How should we analyze AI discrimination laws?

March 4^th, 2025

Stress and Distress at Work

When employees develop mental health issues at work, the law gets weird.

March 5^th, 2025

State AGs are Pushing Back on DEI

Sixteen attorneys general have come out to say what the employment lawyers have been saying all along. DEI is still legal. And discrimination is still illegal.

March 6^th, 2025

Court Says DEI Is Legal

Not only is DEI legal, but the administration's executive orders on "illegal DEI" are unconstitutional. This is not a surprise. Equity is foundational to law. The rules have to apply to everyone the same way.

March 7^th, 2025

What's Coming in Pay Transparency

Here's more on new state pay transparency laws and a little on the EU Pay Transparency Directive from Littler.

March 10^th, 2025

How to Analyze an AI Discrimination Law

Here's what's most interesting to me about the AI discrimination legislation in Virginia and some of the questions I ask when analyzing AI discrimination laws.

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