Pay Transparency - Impact and Approaches VIRTUAL Working Group

Pay Transparency - Impact and Approaches VIRTUAL Working Group
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 | 10:30am-12:00pm (ET)

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Across the globe, policy makers and organizational decision makers are facing the need to think about achieving pay transparency. For example, Denmark and the United Kingdom now require organizations to inform employees of average pay by gender. Canada enabled public access to the salaries of individual faculty in public sector employers. In the United States, several states (California, Colorado) and cities (New York City) began to require organizations to disclose pay range information for job openings. By the end of 2023, close to 25% of US workers will be covered by some forms of pay transparency law. The intent of these laws is to narrow gender and racial pay gaps by giving workers more knowledge and negotiating power. What does the research say here and how are companies dealing with this?

In this working group, Cornell ILR Professor Tae-Youn Park will lead a discussion around pay transparency. Some of the questions that will guide the discussion include:

What are the effects of pay (range) transparency on workers and organizations?
What are the implications of pay transparency law on gender and racial pay gaps?
How are organizations preparing to disclose pay (range) information?

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