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Mikaela Shaw Masoudpour is a trusted advisor to companies from startups to Fortune 100 in a wide range of employment matters, from strategic employment counseling and internal investigations to proactive audits and compensation analyses to litigation. She provides pragmatic, timely advice to employers for their pressing workplace issues, including hiring, leave and disability, remote work, performance management, pay equity, restrictive covenants, wage and hour, workplace policies, and labor relations.

When litigation does occur, Mikaela regularly represents clients in courts and before administrative agencies in individual and class claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Family and Medical Leave Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Equal Pay Act, federal labor laws, and other employment statutes. She leverages her deep courtroom experience to assist employers with litigation prevention and crisis management.

Massachusetts has adopted new wage transparency requirements for employers, joining a growing list of other states and cities.

The new law contains two distinct wage transparency measures that apply depending

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Maryland and Washington, D.C., are the latest jurisdictions to enact pay transparency and wage history laws, joining other states such as California, Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington that are

Continue Reading New Pay Transparency and Wage History Requirements in Maryland and Washington, D.C.