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Also notably,

> An employer, upon reasonable request, shall provide the pay scale for a position to an applicant applying for employment.

So not only can they no longer ask you for salary history, they must tell your about their salary practices if you request the information.

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How would that work if you don't have a set scale? IE you will pay depending on what you can get away with? "We are willing to pay upto 300 thousand for this SE position, but we will negotiate that with the other applicants and take their offers into account".

What is to stop people from just lying about their salary information?

I mean, you can find quite a bit of public data to back it up, so them lying about it won't really do that much good. IE Glassdoor, H1B database, etc.

Haven’t read the law, but what’s to stop people from lying on their tax returns? Upfront notice via the law, and backend enforcement via IRS auditing. Same principle could apply here.

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