The salary negotiations between an employer and prospective employee are none of the state’s business.
That is correct.
Thank you. I'm not terribly familiar with the Massachusetts State Constitution, so I can only wonder whether their legislature has the legitimate authority to pass this legislation. The US Congress certainly lacks such authority. In any case, government (whether local, state or federal) is already too powerful, and interferes too much in the private interactions of citizens. This is bad law, an example of the sort of government meddling that needs to be reduced.
EXACTLY. And sometimes it is in the employer’s best interest to up their offer, for a prized candidate, BASED on that candidate’s prior salary history. Incentive. But incentive is not to be considered, it seems, while equalizing everything by the government.
Amen. As an employer I establish a salary range for a job based on lots of factors. If someone applies for a position for which, according to them, they are grossly overqualified, it raises lots of red flags. Just a whole lot of variables involved in filing vacancies and it’s not cut and dried, although government regulations like to make it so.
Yeah but if you are asked how much you made at your last job and you say 63K and they offer 68k instead of 75k you could have gotten if nothing was said. I hate having to put down prior salaries on my applications.