Tag: salary history

EEOC Sues Kansas School District for Allegedly Violating Equal Pay Act by Paying Women and Men Unequally

Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) – the federal agency that enforces laws prohibiting employment discrimination – has filed a lawsuit that claims a Kansas school district violated the Equal Pay Act of 1963 by paying women and men unequally for doing a job with the …

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Kansas City to Remove Question about Salary History of Applicants from Applications for City Jobs

Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On July 25, 2018, the Kansas City Council voted unanimously to pass an ordinance to remove the salary history question from applications for city jobs after several women’s groups asked the city to stop collecting salary history in the hiring process, according to a report from KCTV …

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California Clarifies Law Prohibiting Employers from Asking Job Applicants about Salary History

Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On July 18, 2018, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law legislation, Assembly Bill 2282 (AB 2282), to clarify the state’s existing law – AB 168, which was signed into law in October 2017 – that prohibits inquiries by employers into the salary history information of job …

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Hawaii Prohibits Employers from Asking Job Applicants about Salary History

Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On July 5, 2018, Hawaii Governor David Y. Ige signed Senate Bill 2351 (SB 2351) into law which prohibits prospective employers in the state from requesting or considering the wage or salary history of job applicants as part of an employment application process or compensation offer. SB …

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Westchester County NY Ban on Salary History Questions by Employers Takes Effect on July 9

Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On April 10, 2018 – Equal Pay Day – Westchester County Executive George Latimer signed the Wage History Anti-Discrimination Law to ban employers from asking about the salary history of applicants on applications or during interviews to prevent the perpetuation of the gender wage gap. The law …

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Historic and Sweeping New Jersey Equal Pay Act Takes Effect July 1

Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On April 24, 2018, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed into law the most “historic” and  ”sweeping” equal pay legislation in America – “The Diane B. Allen Equal Pay Act” – to fight gender inequity and support equal pay for women in the state, according to a …

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Safe Hiring Expert to Present Webinar on Background Checks and Avoiding Legal Tripwires on June 12

Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Attorney Lester Rosen, founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of leading global background check firm Employment Screening Resources® (ESR), will present the live webinar “Ban-the-Box, Background Checks, and Salary Inquiries: The Latest Update and Legal Tripwires to Avoid” produced by compliance experts Business & Legal Resources (BLR®) on …

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Appeals Court Rules in Equal Pay Case that Women Cannot Be Paid Less than Men Based on Salary History

Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Just in time for Equal Pay Day on April 10, 2018, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on April 9, 2018, that employers cannot pay women less than men for the same work based on their salary history in order to “capitalize on the persistence …

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Salary History Questions by Employers Will Be Restricted as Pay Equity Movement Spreads in 2018

Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Several states and cities in the U.S. have passed legislation prohibiting employers from seeking salary history information about job applicants as part of a “pay equity” movement to narrow the gender wage gap between women and men. This growing restriction on questions about the salary history of applicants by …

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California Employers Advised to Revise Policies and Practices to Comply with New Employment Laws for 2018

Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn California employers should revise employment policies and practices to comply with “new laws regulating the hiring and recruiting process, expanding parental leave rights, requiring changes to mandated harassment training, and limiting employers’ ability to cooperate with federal immigration agencies” before January 1, 2018, according to labor and employment …

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