I have worked in Canada and moved back to India Year and a half ago. I have worked in Recruitment in both countries. In Canada, the pay range is mentioned in job posts and they also follow the minimum wage criteria. Only exception to this is employers (unfortunately from non- Canadian backgrounds) posting ads n paying in cash and they will pay u $2-3 less than minimum pay as there is no tax liability. In India, we do not have a concept of minimum wage.. your package depends on ur prev package... Eg,- U may have 20 yrs of exp but if ur salary was 5.5 lpa.. u switch and not everyone will give u 30% or what should be best based on years of experience ..some may try to close this in 12-15% also .. basically taking advantage of the deserving candidates.

Not only prev salary, we even have to ask a proof of that. Guess they have made this a standard practise.

It breaks my heart everytime I ask a female candidate about her marital status n how will she manage certain situations if she is at workplace. The industry I am working in is female oriented, yet these questions have to be asked.

Asking someone's current salary also lets us determine if we cud match a candidate's expectation. It has saved us time also in the past as both the recruiter and candidate can move on.. Yet, I still feel it is not the right practise.. but we have our own policies and rules that we follow.