California sues Activision Blizzard over unequal pay, sexual harassment

Re:California sues Activision Blizzard over unequal pay, sex... by aeoleonn on Thursday July 22, 2021 @04:46PM (#27924099)

>that people should be based on their negotiating skills, then you also support paying people regardless of their performance

Nah, it's finer grained than that. Negotiating skills are the cherry on top, but they are dependent on performance.

You can't negotiate if you don't have offer a level of performance that justifies the negotiation.

You won't even get the interview (and therefore opportunity to negotiate) without the "performance" i.e. actual work related skills.

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Re:California sues Activision Blizzard over unequal pay, sex... by jakelazaroff on Thursday July 22, 2021 @05:17PM (#27924473)

We're not discussing a binary, though. Negotiating skills can't completely untether compensation from qualification/performance, but they absolutely loosen the two. If I am a junior employee who is skilled at negotiating comparing my salary with a senior employee who is not, the delta will be far smaller than if our qualifications were the same but our negotiating skills were reversed.

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Re:California sues Activision Blizzard over unequal pay, sex... by aeoleonn on Saturday July 24, 2021 @10:14AM (#27941101)

We are discussing a binary:

Participating in interview *: 0 or 1

Participating in negotiation for a higher income: 0 or 1

* Note: An interview is only obtained based on past performance (that is, a person previously performed work at a certain level).

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