The New York Equal Pay Law prohibits employers from enforcing confidentiality restrictions on the employer’s pay scales or the salaries of individual workers. This means that employers are not permitted to stop employees from inquiring about, reasonably discussing, or disclosing their wages or those of their coworkers. It should be noted that this does not apply to instances where an employee who has access to the wage information of other employees as part of their job discloses employees’ private wage information to individuals who do not otherwise have access to that information unless the disclosure is in response to a legal action or employer investigation.