Posted on 09/07/2022 11:02:06 AM PDT by ShadowAce
California lawmakers passed a bill that aims to promote pay equity by requiring employers to post salary ranges with job listings in the state.
The bill, SB 1162, "would require an employer with 15 or more employees to include the pay scale for a position in any job posting." It also would require companies to include median and mean hourly rates for each combination of race, ethnicity, and sex within each job category in their pay data reports to the state.
The legislation will become law in California if Governor Gavin Newsom signs the bill before September 30, 2022. Newsom has not expressed an opinion on the bill.
SB 1162 is similar to a Colorado law passed to deal with salary disparities. Colorado approved the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act in 2019 and created rules to implement the law in 2021. However, employers like DigitalOcean have ducked Colorado's rules by not offering certain positions to state residents.
Such defiance may become more difficult to sustain if California adopts SB 1162.
Wendy Musell, managing partner of law offices of Wendy Musell and counsel for employment-law specialists Levy Vinick Burrell Hyams LLP, told The Register in a phone interview that if California adopts these rules, she expects salary ranges to become more common in job ads.
"If this passes, I think we will see more job postings that show the salary range," said Musell, former chair of the California Employment Lawyers Association, which supported the bill. "It will also allow employees in current positions to request the salary range for their position."
The bill, she said, "is a major step toward pay equality but also equal opportunity."
The California Chamber of Commerce, a business-oriented lobbying group, opposes the bill as "unworkable," even after the removal of a clause that would have made all pay data public. The group claims the salary range disclosure requirement is "difficult if not impossible" to implement because the bill provides a private right to action to sue non-compliant companies, even when the infraction was the omission of salary data from a third-party job website.
The group also objects to the record keeping requirements and administrative burden of requiring employers to post all opportunities for promotion.
The purpose of the bill's salary disclosure and record keeping requirements is to reduce unequal pay. According to the US Census Bureau, "In 2020, women earned 83 cents to every dollar earned by men." Household median income by race and ethnicity also varies significantly [PDF].
The legislature of the State of New York has also passed a pay equity bill that currently awaits signature by New York Governor Kathy Hochul. ®
$0-100,000 to start................
"From nothing to something, depending on education, experience, accomplishments, and attitude."
Having worked in the admin side of several companies, dealing with payroll, etc., California was the absolute worst.
And it’s getting worse!
What an admin nightmare. But the bureaucrats don’t care.
And the businesses will avoid doing business in California at all costs.
So stupid.
CA. has long since set the Guinness record in stupidity. This is just piling on.
Why is anybody still living in California?
California is completely senseless.
I guess it’s the senseless people staying behind.
None of the government’s eff’n business. They can shove their equity up there asses.
Of course, young workers upon finding out there’s a salary range, will demand the top dollar within 60 days.
is a major step toward pay equality but also equal opportunity.
Job quality? Work performance? Merit?
” It also would require companies to include median and mean hourly rates for each combination of race, ethnicity, and sex within each job category in their pay data reports to the state.
Everything in life is reduced to skin color and gender for Democrats. There are no other issues and, more importantly, there are no individuals. We need to live our lives as stereotypes. You’re either a victim or a predator.
Wendy Musell, managing partner of law offices of Wendy Musell . . . "If this passes, I think we will see more job postings that show the salary range . . . It will also allow employees in current positions to request the salary range for their position."
Gee, ya think? That information would be “required.” She probably doesn’t know what that word means, despite her obvious enthusiasm for meddling in everyone’s affairs and controlling their lives.
One more very small step to the much-desired goal of the left: total government control of salaries. They are part way there already with the minimum mandated hourly rate of pay.
More government meddling where it doesn’t belong.
Socialism by any other name is still socialism...
And it’s all being pushed by those who couldn’t pass a basic economics class in high school.
I guess California doesn’t have anything really pressing to worry about...
Kind of like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, isn’t it?
If women earn eighty-three cents, and men earn a dollar, women are spending a dollar and eighty-three cents.
Does this apply to professional sports teams?
Go Clownifornia Go!
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