<ul><li>The US federal government aims to ban salary history questions from its job interview process to close discriminatory pay gaps.</li><li>The proposed regulation would prohibit federal agencies from using a job candidate’s current or past salary to determine pay in most federal jobs.</li><li>The proposal has its roots in a 2021 Biden administration executive order on expanding diversity, equity and inclusion in the federal workforce.</li><li>Women in the U.S. earn about 17% less than men on average, and the gender gap for federal workers is narrower but gaps between people of color and white men look wider.</li></ul>

Largest US employer aims to remove salary history questions from Job interviews

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