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So is asking someone's age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, etc. Many of those are also banned.
by s73ver_ 9y ago
So is asking someone's age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, etc. Many of those are also banned.
- SamReidHughes 9y agoYou're wrong. It isn't banned to ask these questions.
- geofft 9y agoI mean, sure, if you want to be that pedantic, you (both as an individual, and as a company) definitely have a free speech right to ask those questions. You expose yourself to so much liability of a discrimination lawsuit that the practical effect is that you do not have a right to ask those questions. If you're okay with it being technically legal but impractical to ask these questions around salary or criminal history without legal liability, I suspect the rest of us are, too.
- SamReidHughes 9y agoThe difference with salary is that it's going to be illegal to ask in CA.
- geofft 9y agoYes. I agree that these are different. I'm curious if you think the difference matters - would you be okay with (or more precisely, would you think it's constitutional to have) a law that says, sure, you can ask for salary, but if it comes out that your offer was influenced by the quoted salary number and you would have paid a higher salary if you heard a higher quoted number, you are liable for back pay plus damages? I'd be fine with such a law (and I also think the current law gives slightly more freedom in practice).
- SamReidHughes 9y agoAbsolutely not, regulating people's economic behavior like that is pure evil.
- s73ver_ 9y agoAnd I disagree. I cannot believe that is regulating someone's economic behavior in any way. For one, the budget you have for a job opening is set before you interview anyone. Whatever you price that job at, it has nothing to do with what I'm making now.