Posts Tagged ‘Salary History Ban’
Banning Salary History: One Step Toward Establishing Pay Equity
Anyone who has ever completed a job application remembers the dreaded portion requesting salary history. It was a trap, really, as potential employers were able to contact the former jobs of their applicants and request that history themselves. So even if you desired more money, it was nearly impossible to request that without contractual pushback.…
Read MoreFederal Court Rules Philly’s Salary History Ban Is Constitutional
In 2017, the City of Philadelphia sought to join numerous states and localities in addressing pay disparities tied to gender and race/ethnicity. The City enacted the Wage Equity Ordinance, which contains a salary history ban with two prongs. First, employers in Philadelphia could no longer request salary information from applicants (the “Inquiry Prong”). Second, employers…
Read MoreIllinois Joins Other States in Passing Salary History Ban
Illinois is the latest state to sign into law a salary history ban for employers. The salary history ban is a component of HB 834 and amends the Illinois Equal Pay Act of 2003. The law went into effect last month and prohibits employers from inquiring into the salary history of prospective job candidates for…
Read MoreNew York, New Jersey Pass Laws to Address Pay Discrimination
The states of New York and New Jersey continue to be aggressive in pushing new equal pay laws. The New York State legislature passed an amendment to the state labor law signed into law by Governor Cuomo that would prevent employers from asking for wage or salary history from job applicants and the applicant’s former…
Read MoreSouth Carolina Pay Equity Bill Under Consideration
South Carolina state legislators are considering a bill that, if passed, would be the first to bolster all of the protections of the federal Equal Pay Act. The proposed bill, “An Act to Establish Pay Equity,” asserts that South Carolina has one of the largest pay gaps in the nation. A 2017 study from the…
Read MoreCalifornia’s New Salary History Ban Is Signed into Law
With the signing into law of bill AB 2282 by Governor Jerry Brown, California continues to take an aggressive stance towards achieving the goal of equal pay for all workers, regardless of gender, race, or ethnicity. The new law amends the existing state salary history ban which came into effect January 1, 2018 (AB 168).…
Read MoreMore States and Cities Banning Salary History Inquiries [UPDATE]
It’s an unfortunate truth that pay disparities continue to exist in the U.S. workforce. The good news is that we are moving towards a future that is correcting that issue. Over the last two years, in an effort to alleviate the pay disparity between men and women across the U.S., some state,county and local governments…
Read MoreCalifornia Continues to Map the Frontier of Pay Equity
In the absence of federal legislative activity addressing pay equity, states continue to take matters into their own hands. (See my blog on the federal Paycheck Fairness Act here). Few states are as proactive as California. With three new bills passing the Senate and Assembly in June, the Golden State aims to tackle various elements…
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