Q&A
CCHR's approach to enforcing wage transparency laws with different types of employers and agents
1:15:16
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Katherine Carroll explains CCHR's approach to enforcing wage transparency laws, addressing concerns about potential loopholes and different types of employers and agents.
- CCHR acknowledges that the current 30-day notice period treats all employers and agents uniformly, regardless of size
- There are higher expectations for large corporations compared to small businesses in terms of compliance ability
- Headhunters and other agents acting on behalf of employers would be considered liable under the statute
- Both the headhunter and the business itself would be held responsible for violations
- The relationship is compared to the broker-landlord relationship in housing discrimination cases
Katherine Carroll
1:15:16
I think that's a really great question and goes to a lot of, I think, our concerns regarding the pay transparency's, 30 day notice period because it does currently treat all employers and all agents of employers, no matter what size, in a kind of a one size fits all.
1:15:36
I personally would have higher expectations for Goldman Sachs than perhaps the family that owns the deli on the corner of my street in terms of their ability to comply with the statute.
1:15:47
It's As it relates to headhunters, it's not yet something that we've seen, although it does point to what we always see in anti discrimination work where initially we see very clear violations and then we see, those who don't wanna comply attempting to find ways to get around the law.
1:16:04
What you're describing sounds like it would still be a very clear cut violation under our statute.
1:16:08
We would consider any agent acting on behalf of an employer to be liable on their own behalf and then also on behalf of the employer.
1:16:16
Some of the websites where people can self publish is a little bit more complicated because of federal law in that space.
1:16:22
But, certainly, with headhunters and that kind of agent relationship, we would absolutely be going after those.
1:16:27
So I would love to know about what's going on
Nantasha M. Williams
1:16:30
going on.
Miriam Clark
1:16:31
Would it be
Nantasha M. Williams
1:16:31
the headhunter that would get in trouble or, like, the business itself?
1:16:34
It would be both.
1:16:35
Mhmm.
Katherine Carroll
1:16:35
It's very similar to, in the housing space, the broker landlord relationship.
Nantasha M. Williams
1:16:41
I didn't know that.
1:16:41
Thank you.
1:16:42
I'll turn it to the majority whip to ask every final question she has because we were rounding out her questions.
