The Ledbetter Fair Pay Act just celebrated its third anniversary two weeks ago.
Not surprisingly, there’s been a surge of gender pay gap-related discussions, presentations, and even novelties. The Department of Labor announced its “Equal Pay App Challenge” (which Dan Schwartz, Jon Hyman, Phil Miles and I predicted on our 100th Installment show…)
Last week, Representative Gregory Meeks (D-NY) introduced a bill that would require companies to include information on the composition of women and minorities in their annual 10-K report to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Specifically, the bill would require employers to report compensation information for all employees and create five brackets of compensation – ranging from the lowest 20 percent to the highest 20 percent – and report the number of women and minorities in each bracket.
In this week’s installment, we’ll discuss some of the new ways in which the Department of Labor and Congress are attempting to understand the gender wage gap – and provide some suggestions of our own.
The podcast will air on BlogTalkRadio at 8:30 AM this Friday and will available for on-demand listening at The Proactive Employer website, on mobile devices via BluBrry and via iTunes.