"The New Push for 'Pay Equity' - Part II," Davis Wright Tremaine, Webinar

The push for "pay equity" has emerged as one of the most dangerous legal issues for employers in 2016, with potential claims in the multi-million dollar range. Attendees of the first session received a high level overview of the key legal and practical issues. Part II of our webinar series covered how to conduct appropriate, attorney-client privileged compensation analyses, focusing on statistical tools to explain apparent disparities and jobs analyses to determine comparability.

Our presentation focused on:

• The key issues in conducting compensation analyses – do’s and don’ts, dangers and consequences
• Protecting the attorney-client privilege – how to ensure and maintain privileged status
• Statistical analyses – how to explain apparent pay disparities
• Jobs analyses – how to determine whether jobs are substantially similar
• Tips and take-aways – be prepared

Speakers

• Michael Reiss, Partner (Davis Wright Tremaine, Seattle) and former EEOC Regional Attorney
• Tracy Thompson, Partner (Davis Wright Tremaine, San Francisco)
• Mary Baker, Ph.D., Managing Director (Berkeley Research Group)
• Kathleen Lundquist, Ph.D., President and CEO (APTMetrics)