This Law Firm Publication by Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. summarizes a new salary privacy bill (A.B. 168) recently signed into law by California Governor Jerry Brown. The new law, which adds Section 432.5 to the California Labor Code, prohibits all California employers from relying on an applicant's "salary history information" to determine whether to offer that applicant a job or what salary to pay them. The new law becomes effective on January 1, 2018.