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Re:Philadelphia Poised to Ban Employers from Asking Hires Ab... by Retric on Saturday January 21, 2017 @06:26PM (#13452688)
Free speech already has well known limits. Copywrite is an obvious one. Anyway, salary history's are discriminatory which seems like something that probably already has case law.
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Re:Philadelphia Poised to Ban Employers from Asking Hires Ab... by icebraining on Saturday January 21, 2017 @06:42PM (#13452746)
*Copyright

Discrimination is, AFAIK, only illegal if it's against or impacts workers on the basis of a few specific issues (race, sex, pregnancy, etc). I don't see salary histories fitting the bill, do you?

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Re:Philadelphia Poised to Ban Employers from Asking Hires Ab... by Retric on Sunday January 22, 2017 @12:11AM (#13453710)
Considering there is a well known gender bias in terms of salary's the connection seems very clear.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/upshot/as-women-take-over...

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Re:Philadelphia Poised to Ban Employers from Asking Hires Ab... by rhizome on Saturday January 21, 2017 @06:54PM (#13452788)
Economic status is not a protected class.
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Re:Philadelphia Poised to Ban Employers from Asking Hires Ab... by pmiller2 on Saturday January 21, 2017 @08:37PM (#13453085)
Look up "disparate impact" sometime.
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