About the Event
Looking to conduct a pay equity analysis and don’t know where to start? Come and join Ishita Sengupta, Senior Principal Workforce Strategy and Analytics, Mercer, and Jonathan Cottrell, Ph.D., Principal Workforce Strategy and Analytics, Mercer as they share their expertise during our Pay Equity 101 program. The program will cover topics such as:
- Why are we talking about pay equity?
- What does pay equity mean?
- What is the business impact of pay equity?
- What are the best practices in pay equity in today’s time?
- Being proactive vs being reactive- pros and cons
- Determine your pay equity objective
- How long does it take to conduct an analysis?
- If you do have a pay gap, how do you communicate equity adjustments to people managers?
- What can you do to prevent pay gaps from happening?
- How can you prevent an OFCCP audit?
Speakers
Ishita Sengupta, Senior Principal Workforce Strategy and Analytics, Mercer. Ishita has 19 years of experience as a Labor Economist and her analytical research has been published in various trade journals over the years. At Mercer, she has worked on internal labor market analysis for companies and planning for a sustainable workforce in the future using both internal and external labor market analyses. She is experienced in predictive modeling, which includes pay equity analysis, turnover analysis, and labor optimization modeling. She continuously works on Diversity and Inclusion analytics for the financial services industry, sports industry, retail and healthcare industry. Ishita has directed research activities on comparing labor costs for firms across similar industries and has liaised with advocacy, labor, and business groups to ensure the accuracy of her findings. She has also testified in state senate hearings. Before joining Mercer in 2015, Ishita worked in a research think tank for 11 years as a Director of their research wing. In addition to her professional achievements, Ishita Sengupta also serves as an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University, where she imparts her knowledge of human resource analytics to graduate students. Her academic journey culminated in attaining a PhD in Economics from the University of Connecticut.
Jonathan Cottrell, Ph.D, Principal Workforce Strategy & Analytics, Mercer. Jonathan assists in delivering analytical insights to large companies related to pay equity, performance improvement, workforce diversity, and other workforce analytics. He is the lead author on a seminal 2015 Journal of Applied Psychology paper cited 50+ times entitled, “Explaining the Black–White Gap in Cognitive Test Scores: Toward a Theory of Adverse Impact.” Jonathan has a deep interest in issues of DEI as they relate to the employee lifecycle and has a strong interest in applying basic and advanced research methodologies to address these and other organizational issues. Jonathan is co-chair of Washington DC’s Racial & Ethnic Diversity Business Resource Group, whose mission is to create a more diverse and inclusive environment at Mercer for employees of various cultural/ethnic backgrounds. Jonathan graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2017, PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology with a minor in Quantitative Psychology.
CEUs
This SHRM continuing education course qualifies you for 1.5 CEUs toward your recertification. Attendance will be recorded and the code will be provided to you after the program.
This WorldatWork continuing education course qualifies you for .25 CEUs toward your recertification. After attending this education program, you will self-report these credits to WaW.
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