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Title: The old salary history question could be on its way out for good Author: Mitchell Hartman

*Source: *Marketplace Morning Report

*Date:* *October 26, 2017* Summary: Multiple cities and states have passed laws recently banning employers from asking a job candidate for their salary history during the employment screening and interviewing process. The goal, advocates said, is to redress the persistent gender pay gap in America. Women still earn on average about 80 cents to a man’s dollar nationwide, according to the National Women’s Law Center https://nwlc.org/resources/the-wage-gap-the-who-how-why-and-what-to-do/, and the gap has not narrowed https://nwlc.org/resources/wage-gap-state-state/ appreciably in the past decade. Link: http://bit.ly/2A0wL7g ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene McElroy, Library Associate James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary@work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library