CLEVELAND — As of Oct. 28, businesses looking to hire in Cleveland must disclose their pay rates after a pay transparency law passed in April. New Cleveland law requires companies to post pay scale for job openings
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The new law serves two purposes:
Employers in the city are required to include salary ranges in all job postings
They can't ask job candidates about their pay history.
Secretary of the Fair Employment Wage Board Kate Warren spoke to News 5 about how the new law could help new employees.
"Data shows that this kind of pay transparency helps reduce gender and racial pay gaps that often persist," said Warren. "So, by being transparent with that, it actually can save employers time and money in

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