Connecticut Job Application Updated: Salary History Question Removed

The Connecticut Job Application has been updated to be in compliance with a new law banning employers from asking about salary history. Therefore, the salary history question has been removed from the Job Application Smart App for customers in Connecticut.

On Tuesday, May 22, Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy signed into law, a ban on employer salary history inquiries, which prohibits employers from asking job applicants about their previous or current salaries. Connecticut now becomes the 6th state to adopt the salary history ban. The law is intended to help close the pay gap between men and women.

Under this new law, employers will not be able to forbid their employees from discussing their salaries or discipline them if they do. Connecticut’s ban on salary history takes effect on January 1, 2019.

In order to make sure our customers are in full compliance, we recommend that all current paper job applications should be discarded, and new, updated versions printed from the Resources tab in the app.