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Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we offer interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today, we are featuring a discussion with Jessica Stender about salary history bans.

Stender, the policy director and deputy legal director of Equal Rights Advocates, says salary history bans are an effective tool to stop pay discrimination. Twenty-one states, plus Puerto Rico, have laws prohibiting employers from asking prospective employees about their salary histories, and Stender says many companies are voluntarily not asking the question as a way to fight pay discrimination.

While the laws are relatively new – the first one was passed eight years ago – research shows they work in surprising ways. “The research shows that (the pay gap) shrinks for women and for workers of color,” Stender says. “So it has a two-pronged effect of stopping both gender- and race-based pay disparities from being perpetuated.”

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