Effective date: October 29, 2025
Applies to: Employers with 25 or more employees in Massachusetts
Source: Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office: Pay Transparency Guidance (2025)
Equal pay is the legal principle that individuals doing the same, similar, or “equal value” work must be paid the same regardless of gender, race or other protected categories. What started because of labour activism in the 1960s and 70s became codified into law as equal pay acts emerged in various countries.
Today, pay equity is directly related to regulation, investor scrutiny, and workforce confidence. Companies with employees in multiple countries (or US states) need to adhere to multiple laws and reporting requirements when it comes to calculating equal pay for equal work and reporting on pay gaps. Failure to do so is an extremely expensive affair and most internal HR teams have neither the staff nor the bandwidth to do this work in-house.
The Dutch government has officially postponed the implementation of the EU Pay Transparency Directive to 1 January 2027 (previously June 2026).
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., January 28, 2025—Sophare AI, the AI-native compliance platform helping
organizations achieve lasting pay equity, today announced a strategic partnership with Locus
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(EHS) software leader. Together, the two companies are addressing one of the most complex aspects
of ESG: social and pay equity.