Governor Healey signed into law H.4890, ‘An Act Relative to Salary Range Transparency’, which requires employers with more than 25 employees to disclose salary ranges in job postings. Employers with 100 or more employees also have to submit to the state copies of its federal equal employment opportunity report about workforce demographics. The state will aggregate the data by sector and publish the results annually so it can track inequities by race and gender. In addition, the law directs the Attorney General to enforce the requirements by issuing a fine up to $1,000 for each offense.
This new law builds on the state’s 2016 equal pay law. Mass Senior Care (MSCA) will hold a webinar on regulatory implementation of the Act Relative to Salary Range Transparency later this year, in advance of the staggered implementation dates for different elements required in the law.