HB 2547 Summary

• Prohibits employers from requiring employees to sign nondisclosure agreements about wages or from taking adverse employment action against employees who discuss their own wages or another employee's wages voluntarily.

• Prevents employers from inquiring about a prospective employee's wage or salary history before making a job offer, unless the prospective employee voluntarily discloses this information.

• Requires employers to include notice of employee wage disclosure rights in employee handbooks and allows employees to file civil actions for violations, with remedies including reinstatement, unpaid wages recovery, and expungement of adverse records.

• Amends equal pay law to extend the statute of limitations for wage discrimination claims from six months to one year and prohibits employers from using an employee's prior wage history as a defense in wage discrimination cases.

• Expands prohibition on using prior wage history as a defense to discrimination claims under employment discrimination law generally.