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“Additionally, workers are seeking more clarity in general, driven by factors such as pay transparency laws ,” she said.

Considering Rules from Other Entities Employers should consider not only the new DOL rule, but rules and tests from other federal agencies — like the IRS — as well as those of the state in which a contractor is working, said Christine Walters, an employment law and HR attorney and sole proprietor at the FiveL Company.

Save Reuse Permission Schumer Bill Seeks to Reverse Cuts to Healthcare, Including Medicaid Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) on Monday, Aug. 4, introduced the Protecting Health Care and Lowering Costs Act ( S. 2556 ), which aims to repeal healthcare cuts in the recently signed H.R. 1 law (also known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act), including those to Medicaid, and permanently extend the Affordable Care Act premium tax credits that are set to expire at the end of this year.

For decades, many in business leadership positions have reacted and acted as if workplace inequities just happened — as if they were the byproducts of a system they did not create and could not control.

The act said that each paycheck representing compensation discrimination is a separate new violation, and it expanded the time period for filing a complaint under the law.

There is a proliferation of state and local laws and proposed bills requiring employers to provide salary range information to applicants for posted positions either when requested or at specific points in the hiring process.

Acknowledging that “the workplace is changing,” Microsoft President and Vice Chair Brad Smith wrote in a June 2 blog post that the company respects employees’ right to unionize and does not believe that the organization’s employees or stakeholders “benefit by resisting lawful employee efforts to participate in protected activities, including forming or joining a union.”

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“If a manager is unprepared, the resulting conversation could leave the employee feeling devalued, damaging their productivity and commitment to the company,” Vallas said.