Can my employer tell other employees my salary?

Under Executive Order 11246, you have the right to inquire about, discuss, or disclose your own pay or that of other employees or applicants. You cannot be disciplined, harassed, demoted, terminated, denied employment, or otherwise discriminated against because you exercised this right.

Can an employer disclose your salary without your permission?

In the United States, employers are not prohibited from double-checking job applicants’ quoted salary figures. Unless they’ve been issued a subpoena, U.S.-based employers are under no legal obligation to disclose any information about current or former employees.

Are salaries legally confidential?

Salaries are almost always confidential, but that’s just cultural. Your employees may already be talking. But, despite all the confidentiality, it’s all self-imposed. Federal law protects your right (and the right of your employees) to discuss their working conditions–including salary.

Can HR disclose your salary to others?

provides that an employer cannot prohibit workers from disclosing their wages, discussing the wages of others, or inquiring about others’ wages; prohibits employers from relying on an employee’s prior salary to justify the sex-, race-, or ethnicity- based pay difference.

What does confidential salary mean?

So employees joining a particular job can have different starting salaries based on what they earned in the previous job and how they negotiated when they joined the company. The biggest reason for maintaining salaries confidential is to mask the pay differences between those performing the same job.

Can HR share salary information?

However, your HR department should not be sharing your salary information with other people within your organization while you are employed there. This is considered privileged information between you and your employer and shouldn’t be shared with your peers.

Are you allowed to discuss salaries?

The short answer is no, they can’t. Employees have the legal right to discuss pay if they choose to, and it’s illegal for employers to ban those discussions. So in strict legal terms, no, your employers can’t say you’re not allowed to chat about what you earn.

Why is your salary confidential?

But why make salaries confidential? That’s because people would never be satisfied with what they’re receiving no matter how the organization tries to maintain an objective salary scale galvanized by an annual industry survey.

What if my employer is located outside of New York State?

An employer that is located outside of New York State does not need to cover employees who live in New York State but work outside of New York State.

Do out-of-state employers pay New York state taxes?

Out-of-state employers who are not incorporated or licensed under New York State law and do not maintain an office or transact business in New York State are not required to withhold New York State, New York City, or Yonkers income taxes on employees who reside in New York State.

Who is eligible for paid family leave in New York?

Paid Family Leave is a benefit for people who work in New York State; it does not matter where the employer is headquartered or where the employee lives If you have one or more employees in employment in New York State for 30 or more days in a calendar year, you must obtain disability and Paid Family Leave coverage for those employees.

Is it legal for an employer to require salary history information?

Yes. However, employers may require salary history information only if it is required pursuant to Federal Law, State or local law in effect as of January 6, 2020, the effective date of Section 194-a of the Labor Law. Does this law apply to New York City employers or to public employers?