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That's too bad. My salary history tells a good story about me, that employers have found me more valuable than average. It's a pretty tangible and direct signal. In an interview it's convenient for them to ask and for me not to have to awkwardly bring it up.
Most people don't realize that companies can get salary history from a number of sources. ADP actually provides this as a service to larger customers.
Are you saying ADP will give my salary information to a company I might apply to? That doesn't seem ethical. Do you have a source on this? I am surprised to hear it.
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>The Work Number (a service of TALX / Equifax Inc.) – The Work Number is a paid employment verification database operated by the TALX Corporation (owned by Equifax Inc.). The Work Number database contains more than 192 million entries and is used by by over 50,000 organizations to verify employment data... Your Employment Data Report contains (1) employment and income information from your employers who send data to The Work Number, (2) information about lenders, credit agencies, and other verifiers that have received your data, and (3) any messages, alerts, or statements you have requested be put in your data file
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> Is Comcast the only company hiring people? If you don't get a job with Comcast you get a job with a different company The reality is, the job market is not that liquid. That's why people are terrified of losing their job.
True, but shouldn't we be working on a more general solution to that problem rather than playing whack-a-mole with every possible way employers can abuse the power that comes from that illiquidity?
Unions and collective bargaining are one general solution, but those are under great threat now.
IME, Congress seems to play whack-a-mole with most issues; I've often wondered what about Congress causes that outcome.
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What is your opinion on regulations that protect certain social classes. For example, should a business be allowed to refuse a LGBT customer their services?
Sole proprietor/family business/lemonade stand: yes, refuse whoever you want, even if you blatantly say "we don't serve gays." Corporations/LLC's: these entities have obtained special government privileges (being detached from any personal liability/ ability to seize an owner's assets), and so it seems reasonable that they can be considered to 'meet some public standards' in exchange for these privileges. Anti-discri…
At the same time, though the business owner also contributed their own taxes to the situation.
I think I agree with your distinction and stance, with the idea being that the market will correct because it's shitty business to turn away a customer over an irrelevant detail like that