Litigation
Cal. Litig. 2023, Volume 35, Issue 3
Content
- Confessions From An Electronic Platform 2022: Appellate Argument
- Disclosure of Litigation Funding Arrangements: Much Ado About Nothing
- Don't Let Your Client's Bequest Be a Lawsuit
- Editor's Foreword
- Fraud As Hyperreality
- From the Section Chair
- Governmental Entity Litigation: the Mirror Dimension
- New Federal Legislation Raises Dueling Experts: What Olean Might Mean For the Future of Class Certification In the Ninth Circuit
- PAST SECTION CHAIRS & EDITORS-IN-CHIEF
- Q & A WITH JUDGE VINCE CHHABRIA OF THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
- SECTION OFFICERS & EDITORIAL BOARD
- Smashing Statues: the Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments
- Table of Contents
- The California Supreme Court In Judicial Year 2021-2022: Emerging From the Pandemic
- The Hastings College of the Law Name Change: the Real Deal About the Bad and the Ugly
- The Supreme Court's Five Arbitration Decisions
- Working: Conversations With Essential Workers
- California's Commitment To Wage Transparency Comes At a Cost To Employers
CALIFORNIA’S COMMITMENT TO WAGE TRANSPARENCY COMES AT A COST TO EMPLOYERS
Written by Jasmine M. Samuels*
CALIFORNIA SEEKS TO PIERCE THE VEIL OF WAGE SECRECY WITH SENATE BILL 1162
With the commitment to wage transparency sweeping the nation, California joins the ranks of jurisdictions such as Colorado, Washington, New York City, as well as other states and municipalities, with the passing of wage transparency initiative, Senate Bill (SB) 1162. With the implementation of SB 1162, California seeks to combat inequities in compensation among women and minority groups in the workplace.
On September 27, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 1162 into law. The bill was sponsored by Senator Monique Limón and the California Legislative Women’s Caucus. Effective January 1, 2023, SB 1162 amends Labor Code section 432.3 and Government Code section 12999 to expand pay data reporting and increase pay scale transparency. (Stats. 2022, ch. 559, §§ 1 & 2.)