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Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking for Salary Histories

posted by martyb on Wednesday August 03 2016, @04:44AM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 03 2016, @07:06AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 03 2016, @07:06AM (#383514)

    Take for example my last salary. It was well over 50% than my local market. In this area telling anyone my prev salary is pretty much a way to get tossed out as 'too expensive'. I know it was out of market value. There was a reason I stayed at a crappy job for so long...