I think this is a great idea—your salary history is none of a new or prospective employer’s business. You are negotiating your future salary, not explaining your past salary. Fantastic.
Exactly right.
Every business has to trust its employees to maintain certain information confidential, and the best way to demonstrate the importance of this is by respecting the confidentiality of a prospective employees salary history. Let them be the judge of whether or not to accept an offer.
Besides, the company should establish the value of a job based on industry norms without regard to any one individual.
I have BEGGED my state legislators to introduce some kind of fig-leaf of protection to job applicants when things are to the point that an employer can force you to answer any number of things that are none of their d@mn business.
This is a good law and I am glad to see it passed.
I think the concept is great, but the idea that this is something that requires government intervention is a pathetic demonstration of nanny-state paternalism.