Current Employees May Have Pay Transparency Rights Too

As our readers are aware, pay transparency laws were a trending national topic in 2022, and we have not seen this trend slow down to begin 2023.

We recently wrote about the various pay transparency laws that went into effect on January 1, 2023, which require many employers to disclose a position's wage ranges in their job advertisements. However, there is another aspect to some of these laws that many employers may be overlooking: in states like California and Washington, pay transparency laws also give current employees the right to know the wage ranges for their positions.

In California, employers are now required to provide current employees the wage range for their position upon request. This extends to all Golden State employees and employers — regardless of size — whereas the requirement to post the wage range in job postings is only required of employers with 15 or more employees.