Employment Discrimination Law and Labor Relations and Employment Law Joint Program, Co-Sponsored by Commercial and Consumer Law

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Session Type: Section Programs

Session Capacity: N/A

Location: Hilton San Francisco Union Square

Room: Continental Ballroom 2

Floor: Ballroom Level

In recent years, states, municipalities, and the federal government have mandated transparency in the workplace in many forms. Those include salary disclosure and reporting requirements, sexual harassment standards, settlement agreements, and right-to-know mandates for temporary workers, among others. This panel will consider the roots and purposes of such transparency laws, what they share in common, and where they differ. Likewise, panelists will discuss whether such laws truly assist workers and where they fall short, both as substantive protections against discrimination, wage suppression, and sexual harassment, as well as catalysts to organize.