Labor & Employment Law Updates
On March 23, 2021, Governor J.B. Pritzker signed an amendment to the Illinois Equal Pay Act of 2003, requiring that by March 23, 2024, employers with more than 100 employees in Illinois certify compliance with the EPA by obtaining an Equal Pay registration certificate from Illinois’s Department of Labor.
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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week that employers may not justify pay differences between women and men by relying on prior salary. The Rizo v. Yovino decision concerned the Equal Pay Act, which prohibits employers from paying male and female employees different wages for substantially equal work, unless the wage difference is the result of (1) a seniority system; (2) a merit system; (3) a system that measures earnings by quantity or quality; or (4) a differential based on “any factor other than sex.”
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