...On Friday he announced that the government is going to start collecting data on employee demographics and salaries from all large employers, not just federal contractors.
The new move is going to expand one of Obama's two April 2014 executive actions to promote equal pay.
One of those actions prohibited federal contractors from punishing employees who discuss their salaries with each other. The other required federal contractors to submit data on what they pay their employees, sorted by race, gender, and ethnicity. The latter rule is being expanded to include all businesses with more than 100 employees, not just federal contractors. The first report will be due September 2017, and the data is expected to cover about 63 million workers.
