PROFESSOR PRINCE QUOTED IN 2024 WORK-FAMILY EMPLOYEE BENEFITS TRENDS FORBES ARTICLE
November 2024 — Professor Samantha Prince was quoted in a Forbes article entitled “Key Trends in Work-Family Employee Benefits from 2024.”
The article and Editors’ Pick lists four key trends for 2024, one of which is “increased demand for work-family benefits transparency.” This portion of the article quotes Professor Prince, an advocate of pay and benefits transparency. “Thanks to pay transparency required in some states and cities, transparency is trending. But transparency needs to extend beyond cash compensation to include important details about benefits. Without transparency, it is impossible to compare companies and make a sound decision on where to work.”
Prince elaborated more directly as to transparency’s applicability to women: “With more information, women are better situated to choose to work where family and reproductive care benefits will meet their needs.” Finally, she pointed out that employee benefits are “an indicator of a company’s values.”
Prince has recently written an article entitled “Benefits Transparency” to be published by the Marquette Law Review.
This Forbes article was authored by Professor Michelle Travis, University of San Francisco School of Law.
Professor Samantha Prince is an Associate Professor of Law and Director of Legal Analysis & Writing at Dickinson Law. She has a Master of Laws in Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center and was a partner in a regional law firm where she handled transactional matters that ranged from an initial public offering to regular representation of a publicly-traded company. A significant part of her practice was in employee benefits including retirement plan design and operation. Her expertise from practice has fueled her research enabling her to become an expert on 401(k) vesting schedules, employee benefits transparency, and gig work. In practice, most of her clients were small to medium sized businesses and entrepreneurs, including start-ups. Professor Prince brought her practice knowledge to the law school and established the Dickinson Law entrepreneurship program. She is an advisor for the Entrepreneurship Law Certificate that is available to students and is the founder and moderator of the Inside Entrepreneurship Law blog.