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"Major companies have said in recent job postings that Colorado residents are ineligible to apply for certain remote positions because a new state law requires
by KoftaBob 5y ago
"Major companies have said in recent job postings that Colorado residents are ineligible to apply for certain remote positions because a new state law requires businesses to disclose the expected salary or pay range for positions, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The law, which went into effect in January, is meant to help close the gender wage gap and to promote wage transparency for employees, but companies have said Coloradans need not apply to avoid disclosing the information.
Johnson & Johnson, CBRE, McKesson and Cardinal Health are among businesses that have added such caveats in recent online listings for remote positions, according to the Journal.
The big picture: Businesses have argued that the wage disclosure law is overly burdensome for employers, while the state's labor department is investigating complaints of postings excluding Coloradans.
Colorado residents can still apply for the positions, but it's unknown if companies would actually consider them as candidates."
- celticninja 5y ago"Overly burdensome" It's a line of text to show a range, "$95,000 to $145,000" They are all welcome to copy and paste the above and amend the figures as necessary. I hereby forgo all rights associated with being the creator of the above line of text.
- Dumblydorr 5y agoVery generous of you, to relieve this massive burden upon these impoverished companies. /s
- celticninja 5y agoJust doing my bit for Amazon et al.
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- fennecfoxen 5y agoDo note that the law does not simply require a line of text to show a range, but other process changes were legislated. The one where you have to advertise positions internally (before you are permitted to advertise them externally) is probably the most likely to do burdensome things to a large company's recruiting processes.
- celticninja 5y agoHaving worked somewhere where that is a requirement, it doesn't introduce that much of a burden. Usually if someone internal gets the position their position is then open, so whilst it requires some shuffling it isn't overly burdensome.
- markus_zhang 5y agoThis shows how difficult it is to regulate companies when they grow big enough.
- benque 5y agoIn a liberal country that is. I am sure certain single party dictatorships can regulate any company of any size within a day.
- markus_zhang 5y agoIn reality it's still difficult because companies need to have support from top level politicians to grow big. So essentially it's a political problem.
- throwaway9980 5y agoI think the most underappreciated story of the last year is the humbling of Jack Ma and Alibaba by the CCP. Imagine the same thing happening to Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg or heck even Mark Cuban.
- bsenftner 5y agoWhat happened to Jack Ma is one of the few things that scares this class of wealth.
- markus_zhang 5y agoIn China people like Jack Ma are essentially the "white glove" of someone else or something else that have access to power if the company grows big enough.
- throwaway9980 5y agoCould you explain this in a bit more detail? Are you suggesting that there are powerful stakeholders who gain greater power outside the company through the success of the company?
- lr1970 5y agoCan these companies still claim that they are "Equal Opportunities Employer" if they openly discriminate against residents of one state?
- humanistbot 5y agoAs defined by US law, equal opportunity protections are only for the following classes: age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, race/color, and religion.
- fallingknife 5y agoAnd on race "equal opportunity" means we can discriminate at will as long as it is against Asians or white people.
- umanwizard 5y agoNo it doesn’t. Discriminating against any racial group — not just disadvantaged groups — in hiring is illegal
- fallingknife 5y agoThen how do companies have DEI policies for hiring and promotion?
- umanwizard 5y agoPrograms to increase diversity at the top of the hiring funnel (e.g., outreach to universities whose students are mostly from underrepresented groups) are legal, but taking race (or gender) into account for the actual hiring decision is not.
- dylan604 5y agoMy religion is of an open and free society. They practice said religion by passing laws that allow for data to be public, protecting what one does at home as private, etc.
- chapium 5y agoOf course its healthcare companies. Sigh.