I do not agree with this. A potential employer needs all the info it can get to avoid hiring a turkey:
Under AB 168, no employer may rely on an applicant’s prior salary history “as a factor in determining whether to offer employment . . . or what salary to offer an applicant.” Salary history information includes both an individual’s rate of compensation as well as other benefits. Moreover, an employer cannot—orally or in writing, directly or indirectly—seek this type of information about an applicant.
My company won’t offer without prior salary history - this is going to turn HR up side down ... we hie A LOT in CA ..,
“I do not agree with this. A potential employer needs all the info it can get to avoid hiring a turkey:”
How does knowing prior salary prevent that?
Think of it this way: Salary is confidential, so companies are demanding confidential information. Most companies would be pissed if you told people what you make and consider it a violation of your non disclosure agreement.
“We’ll hire you, but first you must violate ethics and give us confidential information of your last employers.”
“I do not agree with this. A potential employer needs all the info it can get to avoid hiring a turkey:”
So, conversely, a candidate needs to know they are not signing on with a turkey, so the salaries of all similar employees of that company need to be known by the candidate.
How does the candidate know if they are getting a turkey of an offer that can hurt them by any future employers using the same unethical tactics as using salary as a basis of worth if they don’t know the salaries of the others?
The notion there can be NO box for “felon or not” —hey, that’s just ridiculous.
But the microsecond you put some price on your head..?
They’re going to come in at a penny just above that, or maybe not even that.
That’s what comes from a state long spoiled by having 25% of so of the people ignorant of the laws and not even supposed to be in the country.
Tesla in Fremont got away with paying $5 per hour to a Serb guy to DESIGN their new body facility, until he fell from a scaffold and broke something, after which time they promptly tried to hustle him out of the country.
The general rule with buying/selling is whoever first names a price LOSES.
Unless you know something that I don’t, Ben, I am
not so sure that salary history is among the questions
prospective employers ask of former employers anyway.
Checking on employment history is a little dicey today
compared to what it used to be. I think one of the
few safe questions to ask is “Would you hire Mr SoAndSo
again?”. There are legal issues. That is what I’ve been
told by HR people, at least.
Off the subject a little is how reality TV bosses like
those on The Deadliest Catch often fire employees on
camera. That stuff really touches on legal issues and
I wonder how they get away with it except that all
of those employees who appear on the programs may have
to sign a waiver that protects the employers and TV
program officials.
This is a majority rule country. This law benefits the majority and it is WAY over due.