A Calif law I can AGREE with..?
Weird.
I like that.
What’s next?
Can’t ask the ingredients on a menu item?
Can’t ask the size of the shoes you are contemplating purchasing online?
Can’t ask the marital history of a potential date?
“Hoe valuable were you at this job to your previous employer?”
“I want a lawyer! I’m gonna sue!”
Coming soon: “You will hire who we tell you to hire.”
Wow - never saw this one coming. Some DoD contractors are about to get rocked ...
Women in the People’s Republic of China enjoy equal rights with men in all spheres of life, in political, economic, cultural, social and family life.Just for those who wonder where that “equal pay” mantra comes from.
The state protects the rights and interests of women, applies the principle of equal pay for equal work to men and women alike and trains and selects cadres from among women.
— Article 48 of PRC constitution
The good news is, in CA if you intentionally give your Employer or Employee AIDS, you get a Misdemeanor Ticket instead of being charged with a Felony.
Utopia, it’s only way to fly.
I had a recent hire provide his current salary information in a request to be hired at an equivalent salary. I wouldn’t be able to judge the merit of such a request without that information.
I had an applicant present a resume that included copies of his first and last paystub for each of his previous jobs. Not only did it show his upward progression at every stage, but the resume’s presentation showed he was organized, and documented things properly.
I knew I had a winner, and I was right.
Not sure if there should be law about it, but when you can't get a job without violating ethics because every hiring manager and HR stooge demands salary info, that can be problematic to say the least.
Good. If you find a candidate you want to hire, pay them what you think the job is worth. Stop trying to lowball candidates based on what their last job paid - it’s none of your business.
They won’t stop until the inequality is equal in its inequal equality...in Kalifornica, this is perfectly logical.
Everything must be engineered to fairness according to acid head burnouts.
Yeah I’m sayin Mickey D’s paid me $20 an hour!
Can’t go along with this. Luckily, I’m not in California and don’t have to.
Yes, when making hiring decisions, my dad/boss/co-owner and I, in an ideal world, would know exactly what a position is worth, be able to easily identify a person that fits pretty close, and efficiently deal with hiring the right person at the right salary.
We live in a far from ideal world, though. Especially in our small, complicated engineering company, every single person is different and most don’t ever fit. A chemical engineer coming a big firm like Bechtel will both be too expensive and likely too pigeonholed in their focus to do what we do. Knowing what they were previously getting paid lets us know whether we should even spend any time on them trying to come up with a more realistic offer given their apparent skillset or if they were just banking it at their old place during good times and our offer is not going to sit well with them. Even if they do seem open to a reduced offer, you can pretty much tell how quickly they’ll jump ship as soon the market picks up and the big boys have tons of money to wastefully throw around again. It’s a game, and you need to know what the playing field looks like.
But, to just strip things down to brass tacks, obviously, the premise of this law—leveling the playing field between men and women—is based on a complete myth. No one I’ve seen has more perfectly tackled this than Maddox in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDj_bN0L8XM Five minute mandatory watching to know how to argue against this crap.
Also, this is just another regulation and hassle companies do not need. HR is already a terrifying minefield. And I live in Texas which you’d think wouldn’t be that bad. Nominally, we’re allowed to terminate for almost any reason at any time. Practically, however, it’s the worst scenario of walking on eggshells, where you have to pick every word you say perfectly to avoid the potential specter of a lawsuit. It’s so draining, and this would just be another thing to play chess about when you just want to get things done. It’s awful. Stay the hell out of my business ESPECIALLY when you’re using fiction to justify your further incursion.
Great law. Even loony libs have good idea every now and then.