“'New York has taken another step forward in its efforts to remedy the gender pay gap. The salary history ban, along with the recently enacted Women’s Equality Agenda and Achieve Pay Equity Law, will create opportunities for women, and particularly women of color, to earn wages based on their skill level, productivity and market trends rather than past discriminatory pay practices,' says Hope Pordy, a Partner at Spivak Lipton LLP, a New York labor and employment law firm."
Hope Pordy quoted in Marshall-Alan Associates: What New York City's New Ban on Salary History Inquiries Means for Employers