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More Governments are Encouraging Pay Equity Through Transparency

Trusaic

Effective April 2017, the United Kingdom set a global example on the issue of pay equity by requiring organizations to publish 12-month snapshots online accounting for their gender pay gaps. companies were obligated to submit 2017 and 2018 pay and hours-worked data to the EEOC as part of their EEO-1 workforce reporting (Component 2).

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Cape Town: Employment Equity Compliance Certificate Now Valid For 12 Months

Global People Strategist

Simply defined, employment equity (EE) is the use of hiring policies that encourage fair representation of members of minority groups, women, or other people who suffer discrimination. Due to South Africa’s history of discrimination against gender, race, and disability, the Employment Equity Act was created to address this issue.

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Why Your Company Needs to Implement Pay Equity Audits Now

Trusaic

Pay discrimination has been illegal in the U.S. However, only recently, with the 2017</span issuance of Gender Pay Gap reporting regulations, have U.K. from 2017 to 2018. This new reality highlights the important role pay equity audit, or PEAs, will play as a tool to address increasingly stringent pay equity regulation.

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Age Bias and the PricewaterhouseCoopers Case.

The HR Capitalist

In case you missed it, PricewaterhouseCoopers took an Age Discrimination case in 2016. The class and collective action complaint alleges that PwC has engaged in systemic discrimination against older applicants for accounting positions. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Case No. You can find more information about this recent ruling here.

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Substance Use & Drug Overdoses are on the Rise: Top 5 Stats for Employers

Precheck

Tallying death certificates in which alcohol was a contributing factor showed that more than 99,000 people suffered alcohol-related deaths in 2020, a more than 25% spike over the previous year. in 2017 versus 3.9% More adults under 65 years old died from alcohol-related factors (74,408) than from COVID-19 (74,075) in 2020.

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Substance Use & Drug Overdoses are on the Rise – Top 5 Stats for Employers

Cisive

Tallying death certificates in which alcohol was a contributing factor showed that more than 99,000 people suffered alcohol-related deaths in 2020, a more than 25% spike over the previous year. in 2017 versus 3.9% More adults under 65 years old died from alcohol-related factors (74,408) than from COVID-19 (74,075) in 2020. .”

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Turning Age into Advantage: Tips for Job Searching for Professionals 55-plus

GetFive

Age discrimination is illegal, but that doesn’t stop it from happening. Just like any other type of discrimination, it can be subtle and hard to pinpoint. Nearly two-thirds of workers ages 55 to 64 say their age is a barrier to getting a job, a 2017 AARP survey found. Get a certification. Enroll in an online course.