The Equal Pay Act and Salary History Bans

Equal Pay in the United States: Salary History Bans

The Equal Pay Act of 1963 (EPA) requires that men and women in the same workplace be given equal pay for equal work.12 While their work does not ...

Why Salary History Bans Matter To Securing Equal Pay

A salary history ban is, most often, a policy that limits or forbids employers from asking about and relying on a job applicant's prior salary ...

OFCCP Equal Pay Day Fact Sheet - U.S. Department of Labor

Research suggests that salary history bans are effective in narrowing the gender wage gap, largely by raising women's earnings. One study found that after the ...

A running list of states and localities that have outlawed pay history ...

Employers are prohibited from asking about applicants' salary histories, and they cannot rely on that information unless volunteered by the ...

Asking for Salary History Perpetuates Pay Discrimination From Job ...

In Congress, the Paycheck Fairness Act and the Pay Equity for All Act have been introduced which include prohibitions on employers screening job applicants ...

The Blurry Limits of the Equal Pay Act's “Factor Other Than Sex”

Embracing salary history bans and reimagining human resources policies to ensure employees are compensated based on their experience and skills ...

Never Ask a Woman Her Wage: The Constitutionality of Salary ...

By assessing the structure, function, and (critically) effectiveness of salary-history bans, this Comment finds that there is sufficient evidence to show that ...

Equal Pay Act Salary History Ban FAQ - Illinois Department of Labor

It is unlawful for an employer to request or require a wage or salary history from a job applicant as a condition of being considered for employment.

States with Salary History Bans: Employer's Guide - Paycor

An employer or employment agency cannot ask a job applicant about current or past salary where it is illegal. It has been shown that this ...

More states enact salary transparency laws to fight gender, racial ...

Under the federal Equal Pay Act of 1963, employers can't pay different salaries “on the basis of sex” to employees who do “equal work.” States ...

Why Salary History Bans Matter To Securing Equal Pay

sions in their salary history laws requiring employers to provide starting salaries or salary ranges for a given position to job candidates ...

The Equal Pay Act and Salary History Bans: What You Need to Know

Recognizing that the use of prior salary history can serve to disadvantage women, and with the purpose of ending the cycle of pay discrimination ...

"Salary History and the Equal Pay Act" by Kate Vandenberg

The Equal Pay Act (EPA) purports to prohibit employers from paying female employees less than male employees with similar qualifications; however, ...

Asking for Salary History Perpetuates Pay Discrimination from Job to ...

the more important to enact legislation clearly banning the harmful use of ... salary by employers as an affirmative defense to an Equal Pay Act claim.) ...

Equal Pay Act of 1963 - Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

The EPA prohibits sex-based wage discrimination between men and women in the same establishment who perform jobs that require substantially equal skill, effort, ...

State by State: Salary History Bans and Pay Transparency Laws

A growing number of states and localities prohibit employers from requesting salary information from job applicants and require employers to disclose the pay ...

Hidden Performance: Salary History Bans and the Gender Pay Gap

We argue that salary history bans may negatively affect wages as employers lose an informative signal of worker productivity. We empirically evaluate these laws ...

States and Cities are Continuing to Pass Salary History Bans - Trusaic

Alabama: Alabama signed the Clarke-Figures Equal Pay Act into law effective September 1, 2019. The law contains a salary history ban. It states: ...

Assessing Prior Salary History as a “Factor Other Than Sex” in Equal ...

Yuki Noguchi, 50 Years After The Equal Pay Act, Gender Wage Gap Endures, NPR (June 10, ... Flanagan, Salary History Ban Laws Aim to Close Gender. Pay Gaps, ...

Why the Equal Pay Act and Laws Which Prohibit Salary Inquiries of ...

Employers have argued that salary history is a neutral “factor other than sex” and, hence, a perfectly acceptable means of determining an ...