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Healy signs Frances Perkins Workplace Equity Act, requiring pay-range disclosure in Massachusetts
Summary
At a State House ceremony, Governor Healy signed the Frances Perkins Workplace Equity Act, a new law requiring employers to disclose salary and hourly pay ranges and creating annual reporting to measure gender and racial pay gaps.
At a State House ceremony, Governor Healy signed the Frances Perkins Workplace Equity Act, a law that requires employers in Massachusetts to disclose pay ranges for positions and establishes new data collection to track gender and racial wage gaps. The administration and legislative sponsors framed the law as a tool to make pay disparities measurable and therefore fixable.
"You can't fix it if you can't measure it," Healy said, arguing that public reporting and employer disclosure will help close persistent gaps: she cited figures that women overall earn about 79 cents for every dollar earned by men, that Black women earn roughly 54 cents and Latina women roughly 42…
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