Efforts to improve pay equity by making salary amounts less secretive also heighten the risk of pay discrimination lawsuits for employers, including businesses operating in California or New York where salary disclosure bills await the governors’ signatures.
Those California and New York bills, like an existing law in Colorado and others taking effect soon in New York City and Washington state, would require companies to include a salary amount or range in job ads.
The measures are aimed at combating the gender pay gap and other forms of pay discrimination. Women workers in the US are estimated to receive ...
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