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Council postpones pay-data regulation vote, creates subcommittee and reorganizes subcommittees
Summary
The Civil Rights Council postponed consideration of initial pay data reporting regulations, voted to form a pay data subcommittee staffed by Council members Cameron Banks and Chan, and made motions to disband or hold several other subcommittees to prioritize rulemaking work.
The Civil Rights Council voted on Oct. 25 to postpone consideration of the initial text of proposed regulations for the Pay Data Reporting Program because the draft was not yet finalized. Senior Counsel Ally Sadler explained the department had begun drafting rules to implement the program (which the department administers pursuant to Government Code section 12,999) but the initial text was not ready for council review.
The council then approved a motion to form a subcommittee to work with department staff on the pay data regulations. The council recorded that Council members Cameron Banks and Chan would staff the pay-data subcommittee. Ally Sadler and department staff said they had drafted an initial package and asked for a council member who could review a complete draft and meet with staff in the next few weeks.
In a broader omnibus action on subcommittees, the council agreed to disband the algorithms-and-employment subcommittee (its work on automated decision-system employment rules is complete and those regulations are now effective), disband the algorithms-and-housing subcommittee, and disband the federal policy changes subcommittee (to be reconvened if needed). The council kept the 11/13 government-code guidance subcommittee and the protected leave/reasonable accommodations subcommittee active. The council also retained a public-hearing subcommittee for possible informational hearings. The motions were seconded and passed on roll-call votes recorded during the meeting.
Council members discussed bandwidth and timing: department staff said the earliest formal rulemaking could begin would be at the next council meeting (not yet scheduled), followed by a 45-day public comment period and later staff review of comments. Council members volunteered tentative availability: several members said they could review draft materials in the coming weeks while acknowledging future comment-response periods would require additional time and staffing.
No public comments on these items were received in person, by Zoom, or by email during the meeting.
