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New legislation, enforcement guidance, and platform updates every Monday morning.Maryland HB 649 moves into active enforcement next month. Salary ranges are now required on all job postings for employers with 15+ employees. Role Canary rules engine updated to flag non-compliant Maryland postings automatically.
Enterprise and Scale plan customers can now export a full compliance snapshot for all active job postings in a single PDF — useful for quarterly HR audits and OFCCP preparation.
With the May 2026 EU Pay Transparency Directive deadline now under 60 days away, your dashboard now shows a live countdown and a per-country readiness checklist.
Connecticut's SB 1 was signed by Governor Lamont on 6 March 2026. Employers with 25+ employees must include pay ranges in all postings from 1 July 2026. Rules added to engine; alerts active for affected customers.
You can now connect Role Canary to a Slack channel and receive a morning digest showing new violations, scan completions, and law updates — without logging in. Configure in Settings → Notifications.
A mapping error meant postings tagged as remote were not being checked against Montana's new equal pay guidance or Wyoming's FLSA classification rules. Corrected in this release.
The Dutch Wet implementatie EU-richtlijn loontransparantie was published in the Staatsblad on 28 February 2026. Role Canary EU engine updated to include Dutch-specific requirements including the prohibition on salary history questions.
Your dashboard now shows a 30-day compliance score trend line — so you can see whether your team is improving over time and spot any weeks where new violations spiked.
Our ADA scanning model was updated with 12 additional patterns covering physical requirement language, cognitive demand phrasing, and driver's license requirements that may not be essential job functions.
Ohio's pay transparency bill cleared the Senate on 20 February 2026. If signed, employers with 10+ employees would need to include salary ranges on all postings from 1 September 2026. Monitoring active; rules will be added on enactment.
The free URL scanner previously had issues parsing Workday and iCIMS posting formats. Both are now fully supported, along with Teamtailor's subdomain structure.
A bug in account preferences meant EU country selections were not persisting between sessions. Fixed — your selected EU jurisdictions now save correctly.
The German government published the draft amendment to the Entgelttransparenzgesetz incorporating EU Directive requirements. Key change: salary range disclosure now required in job ads for all employers with 50+ employees. Public consultation closes 15 March 2026.
Customers can now browse a library of pre-approved EEO statements (federal, OFCCP, ADA, VEVRAA) and insert them directly into flagged postings with one click. Available on Growth plan and above.
Following the EEOC's February 2026 Technical Assistance update on AI hiring tool liability, we've added detection for job ads that reference algorithmic screening in ways that may create disparate impact exposure.
The Illinois Department of Labor published an FAQ clarifying that remote roles open to Illinois residents require a salary range regardless of employer location. Role Canary remote-role detection updated accordingly.
The violations panel on your dashboard has been redesigned. Violations are now grouped by state/country rather than by date — making it much easier to prioritise fixes when you hire across multiple jurisdictions.
Some Washington postings that included benefits in a non-standard format were being flagged incorrectly. The benefits parser has been updated to recognise inline lists, parenthetical descriptions, and linked benefits pages.
The New Jersey Department of Labor began issuing fines for violations of S2310 (effective June 2025) this month. First-violation fines are running $1,000–$5,000. All NJ customers have been notified via email.
Every compliance scan result is now stored indefinitely in your account. You can access the full history for any job posting — useful for demonstrating good-faith compliance efforts if questioned by a regulator.
France's Ministère du Travail updated the scoring methodology for the Index d'égalité professionnelle in late January. Our French compliance checks have been updated to reflect the new calculation approach.
Massachusetts Governor Healey signed SB 1558 on 23 January 2026. Employers with 25+ employees must include salary ranges on all postings from 1 August 2026. Role Canary rules active immediately for proactive compliance.
Federal contractors can now export a CSV of all scanned postings including the salary range recorded at time of posting — formatted to support OFCCP applicant flow log requirements.
Following NYC DCWP's January 2026 enforcement bulletin, we've updated our NYC good-faith range checker. Ranges wider than 35% of the midpoint now trigger a warning rather than a pass.
Minnesota's phased implementation reached the 30–99 employee tier on 1 January 2026. Role Canary now checks all Minnesota postings for this tier. Full enforcement for smaller employers begins July 2026.
Ireland's Oireachtas published the Gender Pay Gap Information (Amendment) Bill 2026 on 15 January 2026, incorporating EU Pay Transparency Directive requirements. Expected to pass Q2 2026. Monitoring active.
Compliance violation alerts are now delivered as mobile push notifications on iOS and Android via the Role Canary companion app (beta). Sign up for the beta in Settings → Notifications.
The Colorado Department of Labor published updated EPEWA enforcement guidance on 9 January 2026. Key change: 'competitive benefits' language is now explicitly cited as non-compliant. Detailed benefits disclosure is required. All Colorado customers alerted.
We've rebuilt the Role Canary platform from the ground up. New dashboard, faster scanning engine (results in under 10 seconds), expanded EU coverage across all 27 member states, and a redesigned alerts system. Full changelog available in our blog.
The compliance score now weights violations by the severity of potential fine. A missing NYC salary range (max fine $500k) weighs more heavily than a missing FLSA classification note. Scores may shift slightly for existing customers.