Illinois and New Jersey Join Other States in Banning Employers from Asking Job Applicants About Salary History
Employers in Illinois and New Jersey willno longer be allowed to ask job applicants about salary history noruse salary history to determine how much to pay a new employee.
On July 25, New Jersey Lieutenant Gov. Sheila Oliver signed Bill A1094 into law which prohibits employers from screening job applicants based on the applicant’s prior salary history, which includes prior wages, salary, and benefits; and on July 31, 2019, Governor J.B. Pritzker signed a law prohibiting Illinois employers from asking job applicants or their previous employers about salary history.
“We are declaring that one’s history should not dictate one’s future, that no person should be held back from earning their true value because of how much money they were paid in a previous job,” Pritzker said during a bill-signing event.
New Jersey’s law will go into effect January 1, 2020 and Illinois’ law will go into effect on September 29, 2019.
State and local governments are increasingly adopting laws and regulations that prohibit employers from requesting salary history information from job applicants.
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See below for a list of states have passed similar laws.