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
#2What is the likelihood someone in Colorado sues for discrimination? I think 100% at some point in the next 5 years.
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#3My 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.
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#4What 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.
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#5Reminds 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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#6Don't all companies have to share it for H1B listings anyway, as federal law, which legally are supposed to be commensurate with non-H1Bs (not that they necessarily are in practice)?
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#7What is the likelihood someone in Colorado sues for discrimination? I think 100% at some point in the next 5 years.
Is being a Coloradoan a protected class?
Re: Companies excluding Coloradans from remote jobs to avoid sharing salary ranges
#8What is the likelihood someone in Colorado sues for discrimination? I think 100% at some point in the next 5 years.
Geographic location is not a protected class.
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#9I would hope this would work itself out. People (me at least) are more likely to apply to jobs that have the salary listed, so companies that try this would have a smaller pool of talent.
Re: Companies excluding Coloradans from remote jobs to avoid sharing salary ranges
#10What is the likelihood someone in Colorado sues for discrimination? I think 100% at some point in the next 5 years.
Is discrimination based on current location illegal? I’m curious what case they would have given that many companies require certain time zones for remote employees.