DC Employers on Notice for Pay Transparency, Voting Notice

Effective June 30, the following regulations apply to all employers in the District of Columbia, regardless of size:

• Candidates’ salary history is off-limits, period. Employers are prohibited about asking for salary history either from the candidate or from former employers prior to making an offer. Technically, candidates can decline to reply if asked, so the history is not disclosed, but that right must be disclosed to them without threat & beforehand. The advice from counsel is just not to go there. 

• Job postings must now include pay ranges or a “good faith” estimate of what the pay might be. NOTE that this applies not only to external postings but also to internal postings and transfers. 

• Healthcare benefits must be disclosed prior to a first interview. Putting this information in a job ad can satisfy this requirement, but that is not particularly appealing from a competitive standpoint. 

• Once poster templates have been developed by DC, those notices covering pay disclosure and salary history must be posted in common areas frequented by employees. 

• The DC “Time Off to Vote” notice must also be posted in that/those same common area(s). That notice is available via this link: Time Off to Vote notice