Massachusetts bans employers from requesting salary history

[JesasaurusRex]

My place did both

 

[SNsMoto]

Usually sales positions require a look at your income and/or W2's. There really isn't any other way to see how successful you were in prior positions. This is true for pretty much every employer I've been with in both financial and technology sectors. I've just been accustomed to employers asking for my W2's .

 

[Dug]

We don't ask salary history but we do ask salary expectations.

just to make sure we are on the same page before either side invests time in the hiring process.

LUL - And that is where most people fuck themselves and a lucky few hit the bulls eye.

 

[mercurial]

Of course it's cost cutting, you think they'd say "because we felt like it"? Performance would just be termination. It's that easy, and depending on the industry not super uncommon. Most employers know the employee will quit though or something more dramatic so i don't think it happens too frequent. It does however happen, from personal experience anyways.

If it's cost cutting, it has to have some rational justification and it has to at least appear as if it was implemented fairly/objectively. A rational justification would be "We suddenly lost a big account that we've had for years, and unfortunately everyone is taking a pay cut." When nothing has changed and the only person getting the pay cut is the new guy they just hired, that looks a lot like they negotiated in bad faith.

 

[Eldritch]

Better to just lay somebody off imo. The resentment is huge

Holy crap, yeah, I've never heard of an agency doing that. They always just cut some dead weight loose.