New law bans California employers from asking applicants their prior salary

Re:New law bans California employers from asking applicants ... by jakeogh on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @11:26PM (#15505264)

This is so dumb. Employers can research candidate history without any chance of getting caught, and it's an obvious goal of most ethical (1st amendment respecting) hackers to make sure it stays that way.

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Re:New law bans California employers from asking applicants ... by narag on Thursday October 19, 2017 @09:37AM (#15507725)

...without any chance of getting caught...

Never take that for granted.

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Re:New law bans California employers from asking applicants ... by jakeogh on Thursday October 19, 2017 @10:17PM (#15513112)

Clearly CA needs another state agency to look for employers breaking this law. Heck... why not go full China?

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Re:New law bans California employers from asking applicants ... by narag on Saturday October 21, 2017 @09:24PM (#15524609)

You didn't understand. This kind of situation is very common. It's not that there's someone looking for a certain violation, but that the violation arises in the course of an already started, maybe unrelated investigation.

Actually I don't like this kind of law at all, because it causes random enforcement or in the worst case enables selective enforcement.

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Re:New law bans California employers from asking applicants ... by icebraining on Thursday October 19, 2017 @01:51AM (#15505735)

I'm curious, how does the 1st Amendment play into this?

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Re:New law bans California employers from asking applicants ... by jakeogh on Thursday October 19, 2017 @10:19PM (#15513121)

Are employers not people?

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Re:New law bans California employers from asking applicants ... by icebraining on Friday October 20, 2017 @03:30AM (#15514100)

My question was more "how does not being allowed to use Equifax violate the First Amendment".

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Re:New law bans California employers from asking applicants ... by Karunamon on Friday October 20, 2017 @08:16AM (#15515138)

Probably because the first only protects your right to speak, not to read. Querying a database isn’t expression.

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