SB 1162 Summary

• Requires private employers with 100 or more employees to submit annual pay data reports to the Civil Rights Department by the second Wednesday of May each year, beginning May 2023, including median and mean hourly rates by race, ethnicity, and sex within each job category.

• Employers with 100 or more employees hired through labor contractors must submit separate pay data reports for those employees and disclose all labor contractor ownership names.

• Employers with 15 or more employees must include pay scales in all job postings and must provide pay scale information to applicants upon request and to current employees upon request.

• Employers must maintain job title and wage rate history records for each employee for the duration of employment plus three years, with violations creating a rebuttable presumption favoring employee claims.

• Civil penalties range from $100 to $200 per employee for failure to file pay data reports, and $100 to $10,000 per violation for pay scale disclosure violations, with penalties deposited into Civil Rights Enforcement and Litigation Fund and Labor Enforcement and Compliance Fund respectively.