by Brandon Laws | May 29, 2019 | Employment Law
What’s New About Washington Equal Pay and Opportunities Act? Effective July 28, 2019, the Washington Equal Pay and Opportunities Act has been expanded to prohibit Washington employers from seeking a job applicant’s wage or salary history, either from the...
by Brandon Laws | May 16, 2019 | Leadership
Wasting money sucks, and running meetings that suck wastes money. If an employee spends about an hour a day attending meetings, and that employee doesn’t get much out of those meetings, then they are wasting about ⅛ of their time, or 12% of a company’s payroll, doing...
by Brandon Laws | May 16, 2019 | Employment Law
We recently shared that the EEOC is requiring 2018 pay data to be reported in this year’s EEO-1 report. The EEOC has now confirmed that employers will need to submit both 2017 and 2018 employee pay data (known as Component 2) broken down by race, ethnicity, and...
by Brandon Laws | May 15, 2019 | Inside Xenium
The idea of a book club may evoke visions of stuffy people on stuffy couches nibbling on stuffy snacks and having stuffy conversations. Or, we might be brought back to our college days of cluttered cafes and wildly off-topic “discussions” that are more about asserting...
by Brandon Laws | May 9, 2019 | Employment Law
With Oregon’s ever-changing workplace laws, it’s hard to keep up. That’s why Suzi Wear and Luke Reese recorded a webinar to help employers understand Oregon’s pay equity law and avoid violations and lawsuits. Suzi Wear is the vice president of people development and...