Norton to Introduce Pay Equity Bill Requiring Employers to Provide Salary Range for Jobs in Advertisements and Interviews and to Existing Employees

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Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), the first woman to chair the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, today announced that she will introduce a bill to require employers to provide the salary range for jobs in advertisements and interviews and to existing employees. Several states have enacted laws relating to salary range disclosure.

"Salary transparency is an important tool to combat the gender and race wage gap," Norton said. "Salary secrecy facilitates both intentional and unintentional pay discrimination and perpetuates the wage gap."

This will be the third pay equity bill Norton has introduced this Congress. Her Pay Equity for All Act, which prohibits employers from asking job applicants about their salary history, passed the House last year as part of the Paycheck Fairness Act. Her Fair Pay Act would require that if men and women are doing comparable work, they be paid comparable wages.

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