California updates laws around salary and criminal histories of job applicants

Re:California updates laws around salary and criminal histor... by RangerScience on Monday December 04, 2017 @05:25PM (#15848125)

Also notably,

> An employer, upon reasonable request, shall provide the pay scale for a position to an applicant applying for employment.

So not only can they no longer ask you for salary history, they must tell your about their salary practices if you request the information.

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Re:California updates laws around salary and criminal histor... by tomjen3 on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @12:31PM (#15853459)

How would that work if you don't have a set scale? IE you will pay depending on what you can get away with? "We are willing to pay upto 300 thousand for this SE position, but we will negotiate that with the other applicants and take their offers into account".

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Re:California updates laws around salary and criminal histor... by 0xWilliam on Monday December 04, 2017 @06:55PM (#15848682)

What is to stop people from just lying about their salary information?

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Re:California updates laws around salary and criminal histor... by greenleafjacob on Monday December 04, 2017 @07:08PM (#15848742)

Haven’t read the law, but what’s to stop people from lying on their tax returns? Upfront notice via the law, and backend enforcement via IRS auditing. Same principle could apply here.

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Re:California updates laws around salary and criminal histor... by miketich on Monday December 04, 2017 @07:07PM (#15848738)

I mean, you can find quite a bit of public data to back it up, so them lying about it won't really do that much good. IE Glassdoor, H1B database, etc.

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