Skip to content
#356 Can Pay Transparency Create Antitrust Risks--or Compliance Opportunities? episode artwork

Dec 15, 2025 27 min

#356 Can Pay Transparency Create Antitrust Risks--or Compliance Opportunities?

from Our Curious Amalgam Hosted by American Bar Association

As pay transparency laws rapidly expand across U.S. jurisdictions, companies are facing complex intersections between labor law, antitrust compliance, and pay-equity analytics. Where are the high risk areas? Ye Zhang, a labor economist and director at Resolution Economics, joins Anora Wang and Alicia Downey to unpack how state law disclosure mandates interact with competitive dynamics in labor markets, when pay benchmarking can cross antitrust lines, and how firms can design compensation systems that are both transparent and compliant. With special guest: Ye Zhang, Director, Resolution Economics Related Links: U.S. Dep't of Justice & Federal Trade Commission, FTC-DOJ Antitrust Guidelines for Business Activities Affecting Workers (Jan. 2025) Hosted by: Anora Wang, Arnold & Porter and Alicia Downey, Downey Law

Episode details come from the podcast's RSS feed.

Embed this episode

As pay transparency laws rapidly expand across U.S. jurisdictions, companies are facing complex intersections between labor law, antitrust compliance, and pay-equity analytics. Where are the high risk areas? Ye Zhang, a labor economist and director at...

Ready to play

#356 Can Pay Transparency Create Antitrust Risks--or Compliance Opportunities?

0:00 27:15

No transcript yet.

Requests help us decide what to transcribe next.

Frequently asked questions

How long is this episode of Our Curious Amalgam?

This episode is 27 minutes long.

When was this Our Curious Amalgam episode published?

This episode was published on December 15, 2025.

Can I download this Our Curious Amalgam episode?

Yes. Use the download control on the episode player to save the publisher-provided media file.