| The passage of the 2009 Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and other pending pay equity legislation increases virtually every organization’s risk of regulatory and legal challenges to its compensation decisions. The temptation to conduct quick statistical studies of pay practices will be great and suggestions to pursue this avenue may appear sensible. But employers should beware! Such studies are nearly always more complicated and perilous than may appear. Protection of the results from discovery in subsequent litigation requires thought and planning, as do consideration of potential remedial steps and implementation of any remedial plan, should one be advisable. Dr. Mary D. Baker, Director, ERS Group and Jeff Hollingsworth, Partner, Perkins Coie, will present a series of seminars in March that address the key emergent issues: - How best to understand the basics of statistics and compensation analysis
- How to identify pay practices most likely to give rise to disparities
- How to plan compensation studies, including assessing available data and constructing appropriate employee groups
- How (and why) you should build consensus on potential action steps before the study is conducted
- How to navigate the tricky internal communications issues -- who do you involve and whom do you inform, when, why, and how?
- How to build confidentiality and privilege protection around your pay analyses, where necessary and appropriate
- How to implement any remediation in the least intrusive and disruptive manner
Seminars are planned on the following dates in these locations:
3/19 – San Francisco; 3/20 – Los Angeles For more information about this seminar series, contact Mary D. Baker, mbaker@ersgroup.com or Lindsey McReynolds, lmcreynolds@perkinscoie.com. |
