Our Senior Economic Empowerment Attorney, Seher Khawaja, was interviewed for a Forbes article about the new pay transparency law going into effect in NYC on May 15th. Legal Momentum helped push the city law through and is now working on getting a similar law passed on the state level. 

“Employers continue to argue that they need this flexibility to set pay after seeing the candidate pool in order to attract talent,” says Seher Khawaja, a senior attorney at the Women’s Legal Defense and Education Fund who is working on the law in New York state. “But research has shown that giving employers free range to set salary in this way is precisely what leads to discriminatory pay.”