Don Lustenberger, Ph.D.

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    Are Your Worker Categories Defensible Under the EU Pay Transparency Directive?

    By Don Lustenberger BLOG OVERVIEW: The EU Pay Transparency Directive requires employers to group workers into categories performing the same work or...

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    Ask the Navigator: Worker Categories Under the EU Pay Transparency Directive

    By Don Lustenberger BLOG OVERVIEW: With the June 7, 2026 transposition deadline now passed, this Ask the Navigator question from DCI's monthly EU Pay...

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    Malta Transposes EU Pay Transparency Directive

    By Don Lustenberger BLOG OVERVIEW: Malta has transposed the EU Pay Transparency Directive (2023/970) through the Equal Pay (Transparency and...

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    Understanding EU's Toolkit for Job Evaluation Under Pay Transparency Directive

    By Don Lustenberger BLOG OVERVIEW: The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) has released an updated EU-wide toolkit on gender-neutral job...

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    Work of Equal Value Under the EU Pay Transparency Directive: What Employers Need to Know

    By Don Lustenberger BLOG OVERVIEW: The European Union Pay Transparency Directive requires employers to report gender pay gaps for categories of...

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    Why Total Comp Isn’t Enough: Avoiding Blind Spots in Pay Equity Analyses

    By Don Lustenberger BLOG OVERVIEW: Conducting a pay equity analysis on total compensation alone is often legally and practically risky. To avoid...

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    Expert vs. Robot, Part 4: Investigating Analysis Results & Making Pay Adjustments

    By: Don Lustenberger and Lisa Harpe Our summer blog series contrasting “expert” versus “robot” approaches to pay equity continues this week as we...

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    Expert vs. Robot, Part 3: Planning and Analysis

    By: Lisa Harpe and Don Lustenberger In our second and previous installment of our summer blog series contrasting "expert” versus ”robot” approaches...

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    Expert vs. Robot, Part 1: Different Approaches to Pay Equity

    By: Don Lustenberger and Lisa Harpe Series Introduction Earlier this year DCI experts and co-authors of this post, Lisa Harpe and Don Lustenberger,...

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    What is Pay Compression?

    By: Don Lustenberger At DCI, we’ve been tracking increased attention on the topic of pay compression. So, let’s talk about what it is, how it comes...

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    EEOC Seeks Assurance of Protections in Intersectional Sex–Age Discrimination Claim

    On Tuesday, June 11, 2019, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed an amicus curiae brief in Frappied et al. v. Affinity Gaming...

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    Enterprise Ordered to Pay $6.6M in OFCCP Discrimination Case

    On July 19, 2019, federal contractor Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company, was ordered by an administrative law judge to remunerate $6.6M in back pay and to...

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