Pequity Friday Roundup
Welcome to the Pequity Friday Roundup. Every Friday, we share a roundup of the week’s top stories in HR, compensation, and pay equity. And to end the week on a high note, we close each roundup with our Pequity Pet of the Week. Be sure to follow Pequity so you don’t miss the news- or the fun!
Gender Pay Gap Leaves Some Asian Women $120,000 Poorer — OrWorse (Bloomberg) The wage gap typically costs Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women with full-time jobs $3,000 per year, according to a new report by the National Women’s Law Center.
LinkedIn will pay $1.8 million to California women in a pay discrimination settlement (LA Times) The settlement affects nearly 700 women who worked in engineering, product or marketing roles from 2015 to 2017 at the company’s offices in San Francisco and Sunnyvale. It includes the time before and after Microsoft’s $26.2-billion acquisition of LinkedIn in 2016. LinkedIn issued a statement denying the allegations.
5 years after voting to develop pay equity legislation, N.L.government won't say when it's coming (CBC News) The Newfoundland and Labrador government won't say when it plans to introduce pay equity legislation in the House of Assembly — despite unanimously voting to begin developing the legislation five years ago.
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Employers being left ‘in the dark’ on gender pay gap reporting, says HR body (Irish Times) “Firms with over 250 employees are the first group being asked to report by the end of 2022 which means there is a huge amount of work to be done by each of those businesses and with just a few weeks left to go to the snapshot date, it seems very unfair that they’re still in the dark.”
Pequity Pets of the Week
Meet Scarlett and Benny! Scarlett and Benny live in Colorado Springs. These two snuggle bugs are attached at the hip. Favorite activities include sneaking milk from their human siblings’ cereal bowls, finding new ways to scratch the sofa, and strategically knocking items off tables and countertops. Chaos agents or perfect angels- we can’t decide!