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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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post #28

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Why not? Neighbourhood is not a protected status like race, gender, national origin, age, disability, etc.

Except in America our neighborhoods are heavily influenced by race so I doubt you could legally ban against hiring from a neighborhood made up 90%+ African Americans.

Well, you wouldn't be sued because you banned hiring from the neighborhood. You would be sued for discriminating against a protected class under a paper thin veil of banning a location.

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

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post #31

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Wow. I could see companies excluding CO just due to the regulatory burden alone, even if they agree with the spirit of the law. I mean why create new HR processes when you have 49 other states to hire from?

My curent company shares an email about open promotional opportunities every 6 months. I am continously amazon how on hackernews expecting basic decensy from corporates is a 'terrible burden'

Is 6 months enough? Can't spots get filled between that time?

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

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post #37
post #32

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True, but the most of the examples people found are of companies that already have Colorado employees.

Right, but this applies to job postings. Current employees don’t require any additional work as they’re already hired.

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

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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.

"Anticompetitive" is an invalid concept invented to manipulate people. It's not a coherent concept; it doesn't describe something specific in reality; it doesn't have a useful purpose in honest thinking.

But I agree with you that CO has committed a rights violation.

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

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post #29

So it' s basically a corporate boycott against labor laws favorable to employees?! I guess this will be first time a boycott won't be broken by a police charge and perhaps even becoming successful! /s

> favorable to employees

Is it really though? Complete transparency in salary ranges also means that every other employer can see exactly what their competition is offering. I can't help but worry that this will lead to a sort of "price fixing" that will actually drive wages _down_.

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

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post #29

So it' s basically a corporate boycott against labor laws favorable to employees?! I guess this will be first time a boycott won't be broken by a police charge and perhaps even becoming successful! /s

This is quite common. Corporations know the long game and are willing to pay in the short term to get it. Another example is those grocery stores that closed last year after hazard pay was mandated at the height of the pandemic, citing unprofitability. Unprofitability! Of a grocery store, one of like three places where people were spending money in 2020!

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

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post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow. I could see companies excluding CO just due to the regulatory burden alone, even if they agree with the spirit of the law. I mean why create new HR processes when you have 49 other states to hire from?

My curent company shares an email about open promotional opportunities every 6 months. I am continously amazon how on hackernews expecting basic decensy from corporates is a 'terrible burden'

Excuse me. You're not expecting, quote, "basic decency." You are expecting compliance with a specific regulatory framework. One of these requires a soul, the other requires lawyers and paperwork and record-keeping.
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