Susan Eggman
- Democratic
- Senator
- District 5
Author
(1) Existing law prohibits an employer from relying on the salary history information of an applicant for employment as a factor in determining whether to offer an applicant employment or what salary to offer an applicant, except in specified circumstances. Existing law requires an employer, upon reasonable request, to provide the pay scale for a position to an applicant applying for employment. This bill would define "pay scale," "reasonable request," and "applicant" for purposes of these provisions. The bill would specify that these provisions do not prohibit an employer from asking about an applicant for employment's salary expectation for the position being applied for. (2) Existing law prohibits an employer from paying any of its employees at wage rates less than the rates paid to employees of the opposite sex for substantially similar work, when viewed as a composite of skill, effort, and responsibility, and performed under similar working conditions, unless the employer demonstrates that one or more specific factors, reasonably applied, account for the entire wage differential. Existing law also similarly prohibits an employer from paying any of its employees at wage rates less than the rates paid to employees of another race or ethnicity for substantially similar work. Existing law prohibits prior salary, by itself, from justifying a disparity in compensation under these provisions. This bill would authorize an employer to make a compensation decision based on an employee's current salary as long as any wage differential resulting from that compensation decision is justified by one or more specified factors, including a seniority system or a merit system.
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 127, Statutes of 2018.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 5106.).
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5214.)
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 9).
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended.
From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Read first time. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| AB2282 | HTML |
| 02/13/18 - Introduced | |
| 03/15/18 - Amended Assembly | |
| 07/06/18 - Enrolled | |
| 07/18/18 - Chaptered |
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