So Bob and Anna are equally qualified and currently paid 50k. They both apply for same job and Bob says he has a (fake) PhD and is paid 50k and anna does not lie about qualifications but says her base is 100k
Most of us would say Bob has committed an illegal act because the link between qualifications and hiring decision seems so clear. But there is a very weak link between previous salary and hiring decision, so how far must the company prove that it uses prior salary in hiring decisions? Just the fact that it asks? The fact it only offers prior plus 5%? That prior salary is used to rank CVs?
Disclaimer: Not a lawyer, not your lawyer, but fairly confident based on past experience with this over ~15 years.
... unless, like patio11, you decide to blog about your salary history at some point.
The problem with lies is that you need to remember what they were so that you don't contradict yourself later.
patio11 is unusually (yet refreshingly) open with his financial information.
If you're going to blog about your intimate financial details, you should of course "have your ducks in a row".
Don't be -- I don't think there's any correlation between the quality of a comment and whether I respond to it. ;-)
If you're going to blog about your intimate financial details, you should of course "have your ducks in a row".
Right, but once you've lied about something it's impossible to put that particular duck back where it belongs.
There are a bunch of jobs with ethical requirements so lying is probably going to cause problems.
Well, I am a lawyer, and this is also not legal advice.
To lie and accept a job offer whose salary is predicated on the lie would constitute fraud. Lying about your former compensation history is no different than lying about a prior criminal record, if the counterparty relies on the false assertion.