Question: How can we prevent pay discrimination?
Answered by the HR Experts: You can help prevent pay discrimination by basing all pay decisions on legitimate, job-related criteria. Here’s how to do that:
- Establish a clear, written compensation strategy that defines pay ranges, job classifications, and criteria for starting pay, raises, and bonuses. These criteria often include performance, skill level, and tenure along with market data for each role.
- Keep job descriptions current and ensure they accurately reflect the skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions of roles so that similarly situated positions can be identified and treated consistently.
- Conduct regular pay audits to help identify unexplained disparities and correct them before they lead to allegations of pay discrimination.
- Train everyone involved in hiring, promotions, and pay decisions on the importance of sticking to the company’s compensation strategy and pay structure, and avoid making decisions based on negotiation, pleading, salary history, or gut feelings.
You can learn more about pay and other types of discrimination on the platform.
Original content by the Mineral Platform. This information is provided with the understanding that Payroll Partners is not rendering legal, human resources, or other professional advice or service. Professional advice on specific issues should be sought from a lawyer, HR consultant or other professional.
