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Other issues folks frequently skip over are legal complications and benefit differences between countries. If the salary is the same, but an employee in one co
by bentlegen 4y ago
Other issues folks frequently skip over are legal complications and benefit differences between countries.
If the salary is the same, but an employee in one country has 5 weeks vacation (legally required), but another has 2 weeks, is that equal pay for equal work?
What about when one country says that, if an employee quits (not terminated), the employer must continue paying them for another 3 months anyways? Is this the same carrying cost as employment in a state with at-will employment?
Another somewhat related topic is that if you employ a single employee in some states, your company may have to pay additional taxes because you now have a “presence” in that state. Do you pay them the same, even though their “carrying cost” could be prohibitive for the business?
This is not an endorsement of any particular approach, just surfacing that things are not as cut-and-dry as they are presented.
- ghaff 4y agoAt the very least, it's an easier case to make that salaries should be equalized across states within the US. There are a lot of complications to making it worldwide and, yes, it probably means at a minimum that total comp including benefits is equalized, not salary. To be sure, that means you probably don't pay especially competitively in the highest cost of living states--but frankly, that's probably already the case with many companies that don't have significant offices there.
- chrisseaton 4y agoWhy not give everyone the same employment rights, and the same pay?
- bentlegen 4y agoNobody said you couldn’t. Go for it!
- chrisseaton 4y agoWell you said 'If the salary is the same, but an employee in one country has 5 weeks vacation (legally required), but another has 2 weeks, is that equal pay for equal work?' like it was a blocker?
- bentlegen 4y agoIf you offer everyone 5 weeks, then hire someone in a country that offers 6 weeks, do you go back and readjust an entire workforce to have 6 weeks? Can every business actually financially support that? The point is merely that “it’s complicated” (as I comment at the end), not “this is a blocker”.
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