Labor, Employment, Benefits & Immigration

Inevitably, all businesses must deal with employee turnover and the departure of key employees. Such departures have become more frequent of late, as the economy is again on the rise, more jobs are available, the unemployment rate is at an almost decade low 4.4% and wages have increased. Indeed, the average wage growth for full-time workers aged 25-34 who changed jobs in the first quarter of this year was 10.2%, versus a 6.8% increase for job holders. As a result,

In the past few years, there has been a significant focus by lawmakers on closing the “gender gap” in the pay earned by men and women. Although state and federal law have prohibited gender-based discrimination in pay for many years, the new focus has been upon salary history. Advocates claim that basing an applicant’s salary upon his or her prior earnings perpetuates pay discrimination and leads to women being systematically paid less than men. In order to address this disparity, state