{"id":2128,"date":"2025-05-28T14:54:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T18:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/?p=2128"},"modified":"2025-05-28T14:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T18:54:11","slug":"washington-state-amends-pay-transparency-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/2025\/05\/28\/washington-state-amends-pay-transparency-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington State Amends Pay Transparency Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Hiring-Job-Post-Resized-01.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1665\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Hiring-Job-Post-Resized-01.png 800w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Hiring-Job-Post-Resized-01-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Hiring-Job-Post-Resized-01-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Washington State has taken a significant step for employers under its pay transparency law by giving employers&nbsp;a cure period of five business days after receiving notice of a defective posting to change a posting to comply with the pay transparency requirements, allow employers to advertise a fixed amount of pay instead of a wage scale or wage range in certain circumstances, make other substantial changes to the state\u2019s Equal Pay and Opportunities Act (EPOA),&nbsp;and limiting the damages plaintiffs can win, among other changes to the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The changes are effective July 27, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Jackson Lewis:<\/em><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.payequityadvisor.com\/2025\/05\/washington-states-amended-pay-transparency-law-includes-grace-period-for-employers-to-cure-job-postings\/#page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Washington State\u2019s Amended Pay Transparency Law Includes Grace Period for Employers to Cure Job Postings<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ogletree Deakins:<\/em><br><em><a href=\"https:\/\/ogletree.com\/insights-resources\/blog-posts\/washington-governor-signs-bill-making-key-changes-to-equal-pay-and-opportunities-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Washington Governor Signs Bill Making Key Changes to Equal Pay and Opportunities Act<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington State has taken a significant step for employers under its pay transparency law by giving employers&nbsp;a cure period of five business days after receiving notice of a defective posting to change a posting to comply with the pay transparency requirements, allow employers to advertise a fixed amount of pay instead of a wage scale [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1003,"featured_media":1665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[77,134],"class_list":["post-2128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal","tag-pay-transparency","tag-washington-state"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1003"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2129,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions\/2129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}