【美国】为什么美国越来越多的州禁止询问薪资问题？

 Why are more & more US states banning the salary question?

A trend is emerging by which more and more firms are banning the infamous salary question in candidate interviews.

American states are going one step further and actually making it illegal for employers to ask jobseekers what their current, or most recent, salary is.

The thought behind this decision is to bridge the current gender pay gap, giving candidates an equal playing field and the chance to be paid what they deserve - rather than as little as possible.  

Philadelphia, New York and Massachusetts are planning to roll out the changes by 2018. Illinois, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, New York state, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont are considering similar measures - AOL.com reports.

Earlier this year, Taylor Byrnes, from Winnipeg in the US, thought she had done well in a phone interview for a food delivery company, SkipTheDishes.

However, after sending a follow up email asking about salary and benefits her second interview was initially cancelled.

    一个新出现的趋势是越来越多的公司在候选人面试中禁止询问薪资问题。

    美国各州正在进一步努力将雇主向求职者询问他们目前或最近的薪资这一行为定义为非法，而实际上也确实如此。

    这个决定背后的想法是弥合目前存在的性别上的工资差距，给候选人一个平等的竞争环境，以及得到应有的报酬而不是尽可能少的报酬的机会。

    AOL.com报道：费城，纽约和马萨诸塞州正计划在2018年之前推出变革。伊利诺伊州，缅因州，马里兰州，新泽西州，纽约州，宾夕法尼亚州，罗德岛州和佛蒙特州正在考虑采取类似措施。

    今年早些时候，来自美国温尼伯的泰勒·贝恩斯（Taylor Byrnes）认为，她在一家食品运输公司SkipTheDishes的电话面试中做得很好。

    然而，在回复了随后的一封有关询问薪水福利的电子邮件之后，她的第二轮面试被取消了。

（翻译：毛毓郁）

信息来源：

https://www.hrgrapevine.com/content/article/news-2017-04-28-why-are-more-and-more-us-states-banning-the-salary-question-hr