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Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking for Salary Histories

posted by martyb on Wednesday August 03 2016, @04:44AM   
from the Power-to-the-Employees? dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

The law takes a step that is completely unique: it prohibits employers from asking prospective hires about their salary histories until after they make a job offer that includes compensation, unless the applicants voluntarily disclose the information. No other state has such a ban in place.

[...] The new law also bans salary secrecy, blocking employers from keeping their employees from talking about pay with each other. About half of all employees say they are either prohibited or discouraged from discussing compensation, even though they have a legal right to do so.

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2016/08/01/massachusetts-equal-pay-comparable-work-baker-bill/
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2016/08/01/3803836/massachusetts-equal-pay/

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• Re:Does this affect contract programmers? (Score: 4, Insightful) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Wednesday August 03 2016, @05:18AM

  by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Wednesday August 03 2016, @05:18AM (#383500)

  I was annoyed with the last staffing agency I tried. On their application form they ask for a list of previous jobs through staffing agencies. Then, when I ask for the name of a work-site I worked previously, I am told that is confidential information. This was after avoiding staffing agencies for a decade.

  A common theme with staffing agencies is that they expect the employees to abide by their contract, but don't honour it themselves.

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