State pay regulation has continued to expand in scope and complexity through 2026, with more jurisdictions adopting or tightening requirements related to pay transparency, pay data reporting, equal pay enforcement, and recordkeeping.
On March 11th, Berkshire’s Brian Marentette and Thomas Carnahan will provide an employer-focused overview of the current state landscape and highlight practical steps HR, Total Rewards, and Legal/Compliance teams can take to reduce risk and improve readiness for audits, employee inquiries, and agency enforcement.
They will review:
the major categories of state-level requirements, including pay range disclosures in job postings and internal opportunities
wage history restrictions
and pay data reporting
They will conclude with practical steps that HR professionals can take to prepare for the 2026 reporting year.
Brian Marentette, Ph.D. is the Director of People Insight at Berkshire. He specializes in research and statistical methods related to equal employment opportunity compliance in employee hiring, promotion, termination, and compensation decisions in high-stakes settings. Over the last 16+ years, he has consulted to organizations with national and global footprints in some of the most high-stakes, litigious settings to develop and defend more than 100 personnel selection systems.
Dr. Marentette has also supported numerous organizations as they worked alongside the U.S. Department of Justice to comply with Federal consent decrees resulting from discrimination in past hiring and promotional practices. In his current role as Director of the People Insights Division, Dr. Marentette leads our personnel selection/test validation, pay equity analytics, diversity metrics, and EEO/OFCCP analytics work.
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Thomas Carnahan, Ph.D is the Senior Manager of People Insights at Berkshire and is responsible for managing Berkshire’s Compensation and HR Services line of business. Thomas and his team focus on performing market analyses, preliminary analyses of pay, statistical outlier analysis, support for clients during audits or other pending/active litigation, and our proactive pay equity line of business.
With two decades of experience in research methodology, data analysis, and HR process development, Thomas brings to Berkshire advanced-level data capabilities, and an extensive background that will serve to enhance our pay equity solutions and market study work. Thomas holds a Ph.D in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Capella University.
Berkshire, a division of Resolution Economics, LLC, is a human resources and technology firm specializing in non-discrimination, pay equity, and workforce data analytics. With nearly 40 years of experience in the industry, Berkshire is among the most trusted names in the business.
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Berkshire Associates is a human resources compliance and workforce analytics consulting firm, specializing in federal and state EEO compliance and reporting, pay equity, test validation/development, human resource development and analytics, and implementation of artificial intelligence best practices. For more than 40 years, our consultants have helped employers turn workforce data into actionable decisions.
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