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How is this legal? Let's take a hypothetical example: Joe is employee #2 FoolzRUs, at a Sequoia-backed startup, in CA. The company is small, having 10 employee
by rmk 8y ago
How is this legal? Let's take a hypothetical example:
Joe is employee #2 FoolzRUs, at a Sequoia-backed startup, in CA. The company is small, having 10 employees total, and maybe 6 engineers. Joe is interviewing to get another job, because he feels that his company is not going to last. The prospective employer happens to be a growing company that was funded by Sequoia. The recruiter looks up FoolzRUs in Option Impact and deduces that the Principal Engineer at FoolzRUs sounds like Joe, and thus, his salary. Now she does not have to ask Joe what his salary is, but is she violating California's new law, where an she is barred from asking Joe what his compensation is?
- jkaplowitz 8y agoShe is violating the law. California doesn't allow seeking his past salary data in the hiring process. This is true even if they don't seek it from him. Of course, they can use general data that they think matches his experience. But not if they're using that as a way to dig for his individual past salary.