By Paul H. Kehoe

Earlier this week, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) held an important full committee hearing on The Paycheck Fairness Act (S. 84), which would expand the scope of the Equal Pay Act in an effort to resolve alleged pay disparities between men and women. Seyfarth’s Camille Olson testified at the hearing
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Co-authored by Camille Olson and Gerald L. Maatman, Jr.

The plaintiffs’ class action bar is focusing on creation of new theories to attack pay and promotion decision-making by employers. One area of focus is a new legislative proposal that would transform class action litigation in this context  based on the Paycheck Fairness Act (reintroduced in the Senate on September 14

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