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Companies excluding Coloradans from remote jobs to avoid sharing salary ranges

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Re: Companies excluding Coloradans from remote jobs to avoid sharing salary ranges

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Reminds me of the outrage™ when US newspapers blocked connections from Europe over the GDPR. Regulations have consequences. Not all those consequences are the consequences you want. Sometimes exiting a small market looks like a better option than compliance. Sometimes HN downvotes posts for challenging a political crusade by pointing out what it did to those who promoted it. ;)

Is Europe a small market?

Re: Companies excluding Coloradans from remote jobs to avoid sharing salary ranges

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post #3

My sympathy is with the employers. Colorado did this to itself with such an anticompetitive law. Beyond this effect, it also encourages sending the work offshore altogether.

What competition is being hampered by this law?

Re: Companies excluding Coloradans from remote jobs to avoid sharing salary ranges

#13

Reminds me of the outrage™ when US newspapers blocked connections from Europe over the GDPR. Regulations have consequences. Not all those consequences are the consequences you want. Sometimes exiting a small market looks like a better option than compliance. Sometimes HN downvotes posts for challenging a political crusade by pointing out what it did to those who promoted it. ;)

Is Europe a small market?

"European readers of American newspapers" is.

Re: Companies excluding Coloradans from remote jobs to avoid sharing salary ranges

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post #3

My sympathy is with the employers. Colorado did this to itself with such an anticompetitive law. Beyond this effect, it also encourages sending the work offshore altogether.

What is anticompetitive about requiring salary disclosure?

Re: Companies excluding Coloradans from remote jobs to avoid sharing salary ranges

#16

Reminds me of the outrage™ when US newspapers blocked connections from Europe over the GDPR. Regulations have consequences. Not all those consequences are the consequences you want. Sometimes exiting a small market looks like a better option than compliance. Sometimes HN downvotes posts for challenging a political crusade by pointing out what it did to those who promoted it. ;)

Is Europe a small market?

For many U.S. businesses I'm sure it's pretty much irrelevant. For others, not so much. That's why you see some U.S. businesses complying with EU directives, while others simply block visitors from the EU.

Re: Companies excluding Coloradans from remote jobs to avoid sharing salary ranges

#17

Reminds me of the outrage™ when US newspapers blocked connections from Europe over the GDPR. Regulations have consequences. Not all those consequences are the consequences you want. Sometimes exiting a small market looks like a better option than compliance. Sometimes HN downvotes posts for challenging a political crusade by pointing out what it did to those who promoted it. ;)

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Re: Companies excluding Coloradans from remote jobs to avoid sharing salary ranges

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post #4

What is the likelihood someone in Colorado sues for discrimination? I think 100% at some point in the next 5 years.

I think it's legal to discriminate based on geographic location.

So it's legal to discriminate people living in certain neighborhoods?

Re: Companies excluding Coloradans from remote jobs to avoid sharing salary ranges

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The law also requires that Colorado employees be informed of all promotional opportunities. A promotional opportunity is "a vacancy in an existing or new position that could be considered a promotion for one or more employees in terms of compensation, benefits, status, duties, or access to further advancement."

If a company doesn't already have Colorado employees, they may not be interested in having a remote employee in CO that requires special treatment.

Re: Companies excluding Coloradans from remote jobs to avoid sharing salary ranges

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post #3

My sympathy is with the employers. Colorado did this to itself with such an anticompetitive law. Beyond this effect, it also encourages sending the work offshore altogether.

What competition is being hampered by this law?

I would think more information about the jobs improves competition and efficiency of the labor market. Unfortunately politics uses the term anticompetitive to mean bad for big businesses, which is almost the opposite meaning.
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