Document Type

Article

Publication Title

UC Irvine Law Review

Abstract

This is not uncharted territory; both scholars and policymakers have examined the case for greater transparency of salary information, especially in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Ledbetter decision, in which discriminatory salary disparities were held immune from legal challenge because they had existed, unbeknownst to the plaintiff, for too long. This Article reviews arguments for and against mandatory pay transparency, using the general framework from Just the Facts. I conclude that there is a fairly strong though not uncomplicated case to be made that mandatory disclosure of meaningful salary information would tend to produce less discrimination, less favoritism, and probably somewhat lower disparities overall. Changes should tend to be in the direction of greater fairness as that is understood by employees and the public.

First Page

781

Volume

4

Publication Date

2014

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