united-kingdom employment salary
Can an prospective employer ask for information about your previous salary and base their offer on that?
<p>Can a public-sector employer ask for information about a prospective employee's previous salary? Can they base their offer to the employee on that information? Can the offer be below the advertised salary range?</p>

<p>Seeing as you haven't given any jurisdiction or any industry, I'll just answer with the common law answer: yes.</p>

<p>An employer is at liberty to ask for any information as long as they are not prevented from doing so by law.</p>

<p>They are entitled to use any information at their disposal to calculate a salary offer.</p>

<p>Employment contracts almost always include an "entire agreement" clause, meaning that the advertised salary means precisely nothing.</p>
