The Law Isn’t The Hard Part

In This Episode

LD54. This simple phrase is putting a lot of businesses on edge recently, because with it, the rules will soon be turned upside-down. On this episode of The Briefcase, Elizabeth Sutherland of Sutherland Weston Marketing Communications sits down to discuss the Pay Transparency in Job Postings law and why businesses in Maine are nervous about showing their homework. The story is not as cut and dry as the layman may believe: The law isn’t the hard part.

What You’ll Learn

• LD54 will require businesses to disclose the pay ranges of their hired positions.
• The issue this presents for Maine businesses, especially smaller Maine businesses, is that many are staffed by small numbers, with far more informal hiring measures than others.
• Previously, many of these businesses determined employee salaries based on what the hiree had previously made, or what wages were in similar fields. There were no hard and fast numbers to go for, and now those numbers must be established.

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