ANALYSIS: US Employers Confront Pay Gap Following New EU Mandate

US multinational companies will soon have to comply with a wider international medley of pay equity laws, as European Union member states incorporate a new EU directive that requires greater transparency on gender-based pay issues than domestic state laws do.

Some forward-looking US states might feel pressure to broaden their own laws to keep up. But any change that does come on this side of the Atlantic will most likely be imposed by the companies themselves.

Despite efforts to narrow the gender pay gap, it still persists. Men earn 16% more than their female counterparts in the US, and ...