DCI Consulting Blog

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 Transparency Navigator newsletter examines how the first Member States to enact Pay Transparency...

By Murray Simpson, Ph.D.

BLOG OVERVIEW: Justifying a gender pay gap of at least 5% under the EU Pay Transparency Directive means identifying objective, gender-neutral factors that explain the gap and confirming that it falls below the 5% threshold...

By Fred Satterwhite

The collection of disability status from applicants and employees by federal contractors has been extended for another three years. On July 16, 2026, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) approved, without...

By Cassie Alfheim and Fred Satterwhite

BLOG OVERVIEW: On June 26, 2026, EEOC announced a $2.8 million sex discrimination settlement with LeachGarner, a Berkshire Hathaway metallurgical company, over allegations that it segregated jobs by sex and...

By Mitchell Chamberlin

As of July 1, 2026, Virginia employers must comply with a number of pay transparency requirements stemming from the passage of HB 636. Unlike pay transparency laws in many other states, Virginia’s law does not have an...

By Fred Satterwhite

BLOG OVERVIEW: Federal regulators have extended approval for employers to continue collecting applicant race, ethnicity, and sex self-identification data under the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (UGESP)...

By Emily Kimble and Victoria Ungvary

BLOG OVERVIEW: California’s SB 464, signed in October 2025, overhauls the state’s pay data reporting requirements and most notably replaces the 10 EEO-1 job categories with 23 SOC-based categories beginning with...

By Joanna Colosimo

BLOG OVERVIEW: On June 11, 2026, the National Partnership for Women & Families, Equal Rights Advocates, and The 75 Million Project released a report urging Congress to codify and expand the protections formerly provided under...

By Victoria Ungvary

BLOG OVERVIEW: Colorado's new HB26-1207 requires private employers with 100 or more employees doing business in the state to file EEO-1-style demographic data, including race/ethnicity, sex, and job category information, with the...

By Ben Kerner and Yesenia Salguero

BLOG OVERVIEW: On May 22, 2026, the European Commission reaffirmed that the EU Pay Transparency Directive will proceed on its original timeline, declining member state requests to delay or renegotiate ahead of the...

By Murray Simpson and Brittany Dian-Hansell

BLOG OVERVIEW: The EU Pay Transparency Directive (Directive (EU) 2023/970) required all 27 member states to transpose it into national law by June 7, 2026, but only four met the deadline. EU Member States...

By Don Lustenberger

BLOG OVERVIEW: Malta has transposed the EU Pay Transparency Directive (2023/970) through the Equal Pay (Transparency and Reporting) Regulations, 2026 (L.N. 173 of 2026), becoming one of only four Member States alongside Italy,...