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Enforcement actions taken against employers who failed to comply with wage transparency laws
1:12:02
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Council Member Williams inquires about enforcement actions taken against employers who failed to comply with wage transparency laws, and Katherine Carroll provides information on the current state of enforcement.
- The majority of complaints are commission-initiated, based on anonymous tips about job postings with no salary range
- Some cases involve applicants being offered wages significantly below the posted range, but these are still under active investigation
- Most commission-initiated cases have been resolved through conciliation processes, with employers complying after receiving a 30-day notice
- No fines have been issued yet, but they are expected in the future for repeat offenders
Nantasha M. Williams
1:12:02
Yeah.
1:12:04
And could you share, I don't know if you answered this, examples of enforcement actions taken against employers who failed to comply?
1:12:48
Okay.
1:12:48
And, like, the enforcement, has there been any, like, real enforcement or, like, just Well, for the, for the commission What specific actions that might have been taken so far?
1:13:21
Has anyone, like, been fined or anything like that?
Katherine Carroll
1:12:14
The vast majority of the complaints that we filed to date on this have been, commission initiated and based on the anonymous tips that I was mentioning earlier where people are seeing a posting, there's no range at all, and they're reporting it as a per se violation that we're exploring as an agency.
1:12:32
We have a handful of cases that are basically the experience that my colleague just explained where someone has applied for a job, they're offered something significantly below that, and those are all in active investigations that we can't speak about publicly.
1:12:59
So we've we've managed to close through, conciliation processes, the bulk of the commission initiated cases by, compliance through the notice requirement.
1:13:10
So we've served the complaint that's given them 30 days to comply, and the vast majority of, employers that we have served that on have complied and those cases have been resolved.
1:13:25
I'm sorry.
1:13:26
Could you say that again?
1:13:26
I'm just saying, has anyone been fined?
1:13:29
Not as of yet.
1:13:30
We're imagining that that's gonna be coming down the line as we're getting 2nd, 3rd reports.