Who is selling the salary data to equifax?
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Tell HN: Salary data is for sale
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#32I checked earlier today and yep, my employer is selling my data and future earnings potential to the company that is infamous for poor data security. A confounding factor is that as a hiring manager, and at least for all the hiring decisions I have been involved in, I know we did not use this to check candidates. So what's the upside? EDIT: ADP Workforcenow appears to do this automatically. I'm curious to find out if…
Ask HR how you should verify your employment and salary for a mortgage application. I know my company intentionally shares since they ask you to use the work number to send a verification to the lender.
Yeah, I used the work number thing to verify my salary for my mortgage.
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#33> * Who has accessed the report in the past 24 months so now your current and future employers can see if you've been talking to other companies? that's... wrong.
It sucks but no company would do a serious background check unless they already gave you an offer (which probably means you are out the door, so it’s irrelevant).
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#34Their hamburger offers an option “my personal data” but when I clicked on it I got a 403
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Employers provide it. Obviously they could report incorrectly, but it's not like Equifax is just guessing.
Would you be willing to torpedo a good candidate making a reasonable request for compensation based on a discrepancy on this site?
And if you were, I suspect you are doing the candidate a favor.
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#36what is the work number? is this deliberately a confusingly made up name of company and what they do?
My first company out of college used it for when you needed employment verification for buying a house. Your bank could call the number and get all the info they needed.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Employers provide it. Obviously they could report incorrectly, but it's not like Equifax is just guessing.
Would you be willing to torpedo a good candidate making a reasonable request for compensation based on a discrepancy on this site?
Would I personally? No. But then I would not ask the requisite question of "what was your prior salary" in the first place.
Fact of the matter is that this tool makes it trivial for medium and large employers to suppress wages.
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#38Did we hug it to death already? I am getting a server error.
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#39> * Who has accessed the report in the past 24 months so now your current and future employers can see if you've been talking to other companies? that's... wrong.
Wait can other parties see the view count too?
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#40How does this work in California given that employers cannot ask for a candidate's salary even through an agent? Does this not qualify? Effective January 1, 2018, Labor Code section 432.3 prohibits an employer from, either orally or in writing, personally or through an agent, asking any information concerning an applicant’s salary history information, which includes compensation as well as benefits. [1] [1] https://w…
Would equifax be the agent in this case?