In our final installment of “Big Law & Pay Equity: What Your Peers Are Saying,” Christopher T. Wall, a partner at Stoel Rives LLP in Seattle, discusses how the tightening labor market has given employees more power to negotiate salary and benefits. He says this trend, combined with high turnover, will drive equal pay litigation. A robust job market might cause some to job hop for better pay, but other employees “may feel quite confident about their ability to find a new job, and they may be emboldened to litigate pay equity claims” against their current employers, he says.
Meanwhile, Perkins Coie LLP senior counsel Chris Wilkinson and Cary Elliott, a director at Resolution Economics, discuss trends in pay transparency and equity and their growing significance in ESG metrics. “Moving forward, all signs point to the growing importance of pay equity for employers,” they write.
And Christine Hendrickson, vice president at Syndio, a tech company that helps employers analyze pay data—who...
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