Sec. 4. Negotiation skills training
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The Secretary of Labor shall establish a program to award contracts and grants for the purpose of training employers about the role that salary negotiation and other inconsistent wage setting practices can have on allowing bias to enter compensation. Each training program established using funds under section
(a)shall include an overview of how structural issues may cause inequitable earning and advancement opportunities for women and people of color and assist employers in examining the impact of a range of practices on such opportunities, including— self-auditing to identify structural issues that allow bias and inequity to enter compensation; recruitment of candidates to ensure diverse pools of applicants; salary negotiations that result in similarly qualified workers entering at different rates of pay; internal equity among workers with similar skills, effort, responsibility and working conditions; consistent use of market rates and incentives driven by industry competitiveness; evaluation of the rate of employee progress and advancement to higher paid positions; work assignments that result in greater opportunity for advancement; training, development and promotion opportunities; impact of mid-level or senior level hiring in comparison to wage rates of incumbent workers; opportunities to win commissions and bonuses; performance reviews and raises; processes for adjusting pay to address inconsistency and inequity in compensation; and other topics that research identifies as a common area for assumptions, bias and inequity to impact compensation. The Secretary of Labor, after consultation with the Secretary of Education, is authorized to establish and carry out a grant program. In carrying out the program, the Secretary of Labor may make grants on a competitive basis to eligible entities to carry out negotiation skills training programs for the purposes of addressing pay disparities, including through outreach to women and girls. To be eligible to receive a grant under this subsection, an entity shall be a public agency, such as a State, a local government in a metropolitan statistical area (as defined by the Office of Management and Budget), a State educational agency, or a local educational agency, a private nonprofit organization, or a community-based organization. To be eligible to receive a grant under this subsection, an entity shall submit an application to the Secretary of Labor at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary of Labor may require. An entity that receives a grant under this subsection shall use the funds made available through the grant to carry out an effective negotiation skills training program for the purposes described in paragraph (2). The Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of Education shall issue regulations or policy guidance that provides for integrating the negotiation skills training, to the extent practicable, into programs authorized under— in the case of the Secretary of Education, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq. ), the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 ( 20 U.S.C. 2301 et seq. ), the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1001 et seq. ), and other programs carried out by the Department of Education that the Secretary of Education determines to be appropriate; and in the case of the Secretary of Labor, the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act ( 29 U.S.C. 3101 et seq. ), and other programs carried out by the Department of Labor that the Secretary of Labor determines to be appropriate. Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of Labor, in consultation with the Secretary of Education, shall prepare and submit to Congress a report describing the activities conducted under this section and evaluating the effectiveness of such activities in achieving the purposes of this section.
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