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This year, President Obama issued an executive order preventing businesses that are awarded federal contracts from retaliating against employees who discuss their wages with each other. Prior to this executive order prohibiting retaliation for employees being transparent regarding their pay, an employer (that has more than $10,000 in annual federal contract work) could prohibit employees from discussing their wages with each other.
The issue of pay transparency is somewhat controversial and not everyone agrees that it is the best method of closing the gender wage gap. Under the new rule, employees may share information about how much they make, and if they learn how much others make, they can disclose and discuss that too (so long as that information is not provided as part of their job function). The purpose of this new rule is to allow employees of medium to large sized federal contractors to close the gender pay gap through transparency.
If an employee claims they have been retaliated against for discussing their wages with another employee, it is essential to find out the entire series of events that led to the claim. Generally, if an employee receives an adverse action as a result of discussing wage information with another employee, there are only two exceptions that an employer can use to defend themselves against a retaliation claim:
If your business does not receive any federal funding through federal contracts, then the new law does not apply to you. If you do, however, then the Department of Labor put together a simple paragraph about the new law that you should post up on your office bulletin board, or distribute to your employees to add into their handbooks.
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