Philadelphia Poised to Ban Employers from Asking Hires About Salary History
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Re: Philadelphia Poised to Ban Employers from Asking Hires About Salary History
#2Paywalled, so I can't read it. Curious if this would ban asking about even current salary. That will make things interesting in Philly.
Re: Philadelphia Poised to Ban Employers from Asking Hires About Salary History
#3A society truly run by the people, ala individuals, would have banned this long ago. Just think about it: for an average person, what benefit do they receive by allowing employers to ask about past or current salary information? None.
Wouldn't be surprised if there have been measures to ban this that were ultimately struck down by business people.
The less information that's shared with employers, the more employers will have to refine their actual process for vetting people. Whether this means more accurate metrics, that correlate to actual employee performance, or something else, who knows. Either way, I believe it's good for the people. However, we will have to be careful, if we go this route, to not slip into nepotism (well, more than we already have).
Re: Philadelphia Poised to Ban Employers from Asking Hires About Salary History
#4Asking doesn't hurt anyone.
However giving certain answers could.
What prevents employees from claiming that this information is "confidential" (polite version of "it's not your business").
Or outright lying about it?
Re: Philadelphia Poised to Ban Employers from Asking Hires About Salary History
#5Asking doesn't hurt anyone. However giving certain answers could. What prevents employees from claiming that this information is "confidential" (polite version of "it's not your business"). Or outright lying about it?
Most people want to be helpful, friendly and open. It's how we're generally socialized, and that's normally a pretty good thing. Most people might not be comfortable lying about this.
Especially if, in the course of a job interview, they're afraid it could count against them, not to disclose that information.
The new employer doesn't need to know it, best to make blanket rule that prohibits them from trying to get it.
Re: Philadelphia Poised to Ban Employers from Asking Hires About Salary History
#6I answer what I deem unethical/ unfair lines of questioning with any answer I feel necessary to advantage myself in negotiating. Others should do so as well.
Re: Philadelphia Poised to Ban Employers from Asking Hires About Salary History
#7An important detail: Comcast, backed by the local Chamber of Commerce, has threatened to sue the city over this law. On what basis? The corporation's Constitutional First Amendment free speech right to ask the question:
http://www.investopedia.com/news/comcast-threatens-sue-city-...
Are these the same free speech rights the Supreme Court recently bestowed on the corporations? I remember that at the time legal analysts said it would make it hard to regulate corporations. How can you regulate, for example, what goes in a prospectus issued to shareholders if the corporate has free speech rights?
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#8I answer what I deem unethical/ unfair lines of questioning with any answer I feel necessary to advantage myself in negotiating. Others should do so as well.
I have chosen to answer that it is irrelevant. I claim I am not driven entirely by money, and therefore I would consider any offer on its total merits, not just salary. A few employers have taken exception to this, luckily I don't have to move jobs right now.
The point is when I was younger I would have told them, under pressure to seem open. Ban it, it is scummy
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#9Paywalled, so I can't read it. Curious if this would ban asking about even current salary. That will make things interesting in Philly.
Try hitting the "web" button under the link and navigating in through google.
If that doesn't work, I made you a pastebin of the raw text: http://pastebin.com/kS5QPEiF
Re: Philadelphia Poised to Ban Employers from Asking Hires About Salary History
#10Most innovation and progress now is at the city level (I'm not the first to say it). Name the last thing government achieved at a national level in the U.S. - there's health care, but that's now looking shaky.
The priority of one major party in the U.S. is to shut down government as much as possible; that party can block progress everywhere but in cities, where they have no power for now. However, they are trying to pass 'pre-emption laws' in many state governments which block cities from doing anything the Republicans in the state capitals don't like. So much for the belief in liberty and local control.