With remote work plan, Facebook dashes hopes of paycheck arbitrage

Re:With remote work plan, Facebook dashes hopes of paycheck ... by tptacek on Sunday May 24, 2020 @07:50PM (#23296045)

What's different here is presumably the scale the policy is being applied at, which creates the likelihood that significant groups of employees will be able to demonstrate disparate impact. For it to be a problem, there need to be enough remote employees in "favored" and "disfavored" {location,compensation} buckets to make a case. Gitlab is presumably not there yet.

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Re:With remote work plan, Facebook dashes hopes of paycheck ... by PaulDavisThe1st on Sunday May 24, 2020 @08:27PM (#23296330)

You think the US government isn't "at the scale" of Facebook?

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Re:With remote work plan, Facebook dashes hopes of paycheck ... by count on Sunday May 24, 2020 @08:49PM (#23296492)

USG pays flat rate globally. They then plus up a COLA allowance based on high-cost areas, special circumstances, etc. But the base rate is a flat rate for a given position. You can pay 'less extra', but not 'less', generally. Which I'm sure is what FB and others will technically do.

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Re:With remote work plan, Facebook dashes hopes of paycheck ... by PaulDavisThe1st on Sunday May 24, 2020 @09:29PM (#23296792)

Parent comment started:

>What's different here is presumably the scale the policy is being applied at

Suggesting that FB is somehow going to apply any policy to its employees that is at a larger scale than the US government is a bit ridiculous.

Yes, I agree that's what FB will do.

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Re:With remote work plan, Facebook dashes hopes of paycheck ... by astura on Sunday May 24, 2020 @11:29PM (#23297502)

BAH is based on your duty location

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Re:With remote work plan, Facebook dashes hopes of paycheck ... by caleblloyd on Monday May 25, 2020 @06:11AM (#23299666)

For Active Duty - yes it is based on duty location zip code, because they assume you will move near the base that you work at.

For National Guard - it is based on Home of Record zip code. Many National Guard members travel >100 miles to their assigned Armory.

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Re:With remote work plan, Facebook dashes hopes of paycheck ... by count on Thursday May 28, 2020 @12:02PM (#23338845)

But that's an adjustment / extra, not a change to your pay as an O-3 or E-5 or GS-12 or whatever.

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Re:With remote work plan, Facebook dashes hopes of paycheck ... by im3w1l on Monday May 25, 2020 @04:38AM (#23299231)

Does it really work on a company level like that? In the industry as a whole the scale should be enough.

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