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Re:"Equal pay for equal work" in remote jobs by pc86 on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @02:20PM (#25141154)
> Only difference is remote is not protected class, but that is simply an implementation detail.

Of course it's not a protected class, and that's by design. Protected classes are things you cannot change (with the exception of religion), and thus you shouldn't be able to discriminate based on them. You wanting to live in Kansas doesn't (shouldn't) afford you some protected status giving you an artificial pay increase.

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Re:"Equal pay for equal work" in remote jobs by a_imho on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @05:11PM (#25143133)
You can't just discount the exceptions to make an argument. Uprooting a family and moving to a different country while being in the mercy of a work visa is not something to be taken lightly either in practice. Anyway the point is not who should belong into a protected class, in fact when there were no legal protections it was still not fair to underpay some folks just because companies could get away with it. It just happens companies can do it with remote workers as of today.
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