New York City bans employers from asking potential workers about past salary

Re:New York City bans employers from asking potential worker... by wwweston on Friday April 07, 2017 @01:50PM (#14061906)

There's an awful lot that's hiding under that word "often" in your last sentence. How often? How do we know?

Anecdotally, even as a software & full-stack web developer that's worked in half a dozen languages and has a math degree, I've been in both positions -- I've had the freedom to complain about people annoying me with unsolicited offers to interview while banking a third of my paycheck and treating another third as disposable... and I've been pavement-pounding in desperation.

The former has been more often the case than the latter for me, but I think it's probable that like a large portion of the audience here, I've been insulated by circumstance.

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Re:New York City bans employers from asking potential worker... by imsofuture on Friday April 07, 2017 @03:07PM (#14062616)

Yes, sometimes, many times, maybe even 'often', the job applicant is more desperate for a job than the hiring party is.

But it's not a rule that applicants are desperate, and hiring parties aren't. It's absolutely a stereotype of the hiring process though.

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Re:New York City bans employers from asking potential worker... by user5994461 on Friday April 07, 2017 @08:47PM (#14064587)

Hiring parties are desperate. Ever been at any startup or any hiring committee?

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