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If you gather this information in any way from an applicant, you are opening yourself up to a lawsuit that will cost you many multiples of whatever you were hop
by Gargoyle 9y ago
If you gather this information in any way from an applicant, you are opening yourself up to a lawsuit that will cost you many multiples of whatever you were hoping to save. Even if you win, which you won't.
Also, "and — if applicants ask — must give them a pay range for the job they are seeking"
So start offering what the job is worth.
- chollida1 9y agoare you sure you are replying to the correct comment. Nothing you wrote seems to have anything to do with what I posted:)
- milcron 9y agoGargoyle is responding to "No word on if they are allowed to use Equifax, etc to pull salary data from?"
- jakeogh 9y agoThis is so dumb. Employers can research candidate history without any chance of getting caught, and it's an obvious goal of most ethical (1st amendment respecting) hackers to make sure it stays that way.
- icebraining 9y agoI'm curious, how does the 1st Amendment play into this?
- jakeogh 9y agoAre employers not people?
- icebraining 9y agoMy question was more "how does not being allowed to use Equifax violate the First Amendment".
- Karunamon 9y agoProbably because the first only protects your right to speak, not to read. Querying a database isn’t expression.
- narag 9y ago...without any chance of getting caught... Never take that for granted.
- jakeogh 9y agoClearly CA needs another state agency to look for employers breaking this law. Heck... why not go full China?
- narag 9y agoYou didn't understand. This kind of situation is very common. It's not that there's someone looking for a certain violation, but that the violation arises in the course of an already started, maybe unrelated investigation. Actually I don't like this kind of law at all, because it causes random enforcement or in the worst case enables selective enforcement.
- alphonsegaston 9y agoConsidering that companies like Google and Apple went to illegal extremes to prevent competition for labor and depress employee wages, I find it unlikely that they’re not going to do the same thing here. They’ll probably invent some cryptic, convoluted means to launder the data, and if they ever get caught, pay whatever slap on the wrist fine is the cost of doing this kind of stuff.
- thoekn230eo 9y agoI'm as cynical as you are, and even won an award in that lawsuit. However, aren't both companies under different management now? (Tim vs. Steve, etc.)
- alphonsegaston 9y agoApple, maybe. Google, not so much. Still skeptical either way.
- WillReplyfFood 9y agoThe head changes - the process stays the same. Without monetary damages, companys would just continue to hire CEOs to take the blame, like a ablative hull.