Miles & Stockbridge’s Labor, Employment, Benefits & Immigration Practice Group presented its 21st annual Hot Topics in Employment Law seminar April 25 to clients from throughout Maryland and beyond. Topics covered included employee pay updates; the proposed federal ban on non-competes; attacks on confidentiality clauses in employment agreements; federal and state leave law updates; and the myriad issues raised on a day-to-day basis with human resources professionals, including health and safety issues in the workplace, the impact of changing cannabis laws on employers and more. Here are some highlights:
Trending Issues in Employee Pay
Suzzanne Decker, Stephanie Baron and Michelle Johnson discussed the rise of pay transparency laws, which require employers to disclose information about employee compensation to eliminate pay disparities. Some states have affirmative disclosure obligations, while others only require disclosure upon request. Since pay transparency requirements vary by state, employers should check applicable state laws to ensure compliance in each case. For example, in Maryland, employers must provide a job applicant with the wage range for the position applied for upon the applicant’s request, cannot prohibit employees from discussing salaries and cannot require employees to share previous salary information.
The trio also discussed pay equity issues, including factors a company can legally consider when setting employee pay and state reporting...
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