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Your Salary History Cannot Be Asked in Interviews Anymore

August 2, 2016

The New York Times // Stacy Cowley

Massachusetts’ new equal pay law bans salary history from the interview process and thus requires companies to base salaries off the value of the position rather than the value of the individual. The bipartisan legislation will hopefully become an exemplar for the rest of the nation as well as influence the federal discourse on wage equality.