Labor/Employment,
Administrative/Regulatory
May 10, 2017
Is California moving toward completely 'blind' hiring?
Assembly Bill 168 would prohibit California employers, including public sector employers, from requesting information about a job applicant's salary history or benefits.
Gina M. Roccanova
Principal
Jackson Lewis PC
labor & employment
Phone: (510) 808-2010
Fax: (510) 444-1108
Email: groccanova@meyersnave.com
Univ of Michigan Law School
Gina has more than 20 years of experience in both the public and private sectors and brings a practical, problem-solving orientation to her work in negotiations, counseling, investigations, litigation, arbitration, and training.
Is California moving toward requiring completely "blind" hiring? While some social science studies have shown that removing all markers of gender and ethnicity from resumes - including applicant names -significantly reduces disparate impacts, the state is still far from requiring such drastic changes.
However, there is a bill before the California Legislature that takes a small step in that direction. Assembly Bill 168, a bill introduced in January by Assemblywoman Susan Talamantes E...
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