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Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary ranges when law requires it?

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Re: Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary ranges when law requires it?

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Post by wskinner »

willio58 wrote: post #10
gregjor wrote: post #2

Probably because HN is not a law enforcement agency for New York City. The law has some exceptions, perhaps those apply. Why not contact the company and politely ask for the salary range?

HN is being payed by these companies for these posts. Surely it wouldn’t be too hard for HN devs to have a running list of states that require salary ranges to be posted, and check against that when the customer submits a request. Then it will make it easier as more and more states require the bare-minimum worker right of public salaries.

HN is not payed for these posts. Who’s Hiring posts are like all others: anyone can comment, and no one on HN ever pays the site operator for the right to post.

Re: Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary ranges when law requires it?

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Post by matsemann »

zcombynator wrote: post #13

You should stop making YC responsible for what any single portfolio company is doing. That's straight out hilarious. After the firms are out of batch they are independent and autonomous organizations.

As long as these companies keep bragging about being related to YC, anything they do will also reflect on YC. You can't ask people not to associate these things.

And in this case, these ads are given special treatment here on HN. So of course YC owns some part of the responsibility.

Re: Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary ranges when law requires it?

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Post by theandrewbailey »

gregjor wrote: post #2

Probably because HN is not a law enforcement agency for New York City. The law has some exceptions, perhaps those apply. Why not contact the company and politely ask for the salary range?

Maybe HN could require salary range in order to be promoted here (regardless of location or laws)?

Re: Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary ranges when law requires it?

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Post by drstewart »

manholio wrote: post #15
altdataseller wrote: post #3

Contact the company, and tell them they need to publish their salary range. Or else you'll report them to the NYC Attorney General (or whoever is in charge of this thing). Maybe they're ignorant. Or they're hoping noone calls them out on this. Either way, make sure they know the consequences if they don't publish it

That's not the point. YC lends credibility to these companies by funding them, so allowing them to post illegal job ads on a platform controlled by YC strongly implies that YC has no problem with that practice. This is the appropriate venue to talk about it and make YC aware of it.

It's not YC's job to monitor global regulatory compliance for every company they fund.

Re: Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary ranges when law requires it?

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Post by wpietri »

gregjor wrote: post #2

Probably because HN is not a law enforcement agency for New York City. The law has some exceptions, perhaps those apply. Why not contact the company and politely ask for the salary range?

> Probably because HN is not a law enforcement agency for New York City.

True, but irrelevant, as that's not the only reason to do it. YC has a brand whose value they surely wish to maintain. Presumably that gives them an interest in not directly aiding companies in breaking the law.

Re: Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary ranges when law requires it?

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Post by matsemann »

wskinner wrote: post #21
willio58 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN is being payed by these companies for these posts. Surely it wouldn’t be too hard for HN devs to have a running list of states that require salary ranges to be posted, and check against that when the customer submits a request. Then it will make it easier as more and more states require the bare-minimum worker right of public salaries.

HN is not payed for these posts. Who’s Hiring posts are like all others: anyone can comment, and no one on HN ever pays the site operator for the right to post.

This isn't Whos's Hiring posts. These are the job ads you see in the middle of your frontpage. Like now, on spot 14 I see a special post like this:

> Rutter (YC S19) Is Hiring a Senior Software Engineer in NYC (ashbyhq.com)

> https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rutter/7b222f5f-cd46-4592-9cf8-6cd1...

Which I can't comment on, it's just an ad for a YC company.

Re: Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary ranges when law requires it?

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Post by matsemann »

drstewart wrote: post #24
manholio wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not the point. YC lends credibility to these companies by funding them, so allowing them to post illegal job ads on a platform controlled by YC strongly implies that YC has no problem with that practice. This is the appropriate venue to talk about it and make YC aware of it.

It's not YC's job to monitor global regulatory compliance for every company they fund.

But when YC posts these ads on their HN front page..?
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