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The law takes a step that is completely unique: it prohibits employers from asking prospective hires about their salary histories until after they make a job offer that includes compensation, unless the applicants voluntarily disclose the information. No other state has such a ban in place.
[...] The new law also bans salary secrecy, blocking employers from keeping their employees from talking about pay with each other. About half of all employees say they are either prohibited or discouraged from discussing compensation, even though they have a legal right to do so.
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2016/08/01/massachusetts-equal-pay-comparable-work-baker-bill/
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2016/08/01/3803836/massachusetts-equal-pay/
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(Score: 2) by Justin Case on Wednesday August 03 2016, @11:23AM
What if you could ask for a list of 3 former employees who have also held this position?
But you can. What's stopping you?
For that matter why don't you start one of those rate-your-professor type websites, only this would be rate-your-boss.
Oh, wait, bet that's already been done. Did you look?
Better yet, since all the companies on Earth are doing it the stupid way, you could start a new company and lure away everyone else's best employees with your superior information disclosure. You're going to get right on that, right?
No, you just want to whine how powerless you are when you didn't make any effort.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 03 2016, @02:24PM
Internet opt-in surveys already exist and are about as informative as most comments on internet forums. And I'm not sure how you took my comment to suggest companies are doing it the stupid way - they're maximally exploiting information asymmetry. If we are completely accepting of societally detrimental behavior, this is being smart if anything. This enables them to get closer to the minimum price to hire people. The fact productivity per employmee has skyrocketed yet real wages remain more or less stagnant since the late 70s is evidence that they've been incredibly successful at such. Many companies actually have implicit agreements among one another to not offer to pay more to each others' employees to further minimize each others' costs. For instance when a Google recruiter reached out to an Apple employee their bosses went above their heads and the was fired within the day ( http://time.com/42322/steve-jobs-chilling-response-after-getting-a-google-employee-fired/ [time.com] ) . Steve Jobs response to the news of this was a smiley.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday August 04 2016, @02:01AM
Instead of just mocking GP, you could have earned an "informative" mod by linking to something useful.
https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/ingersoll-rand-reviews-SRCH_KE0,14.htm [glassdoor.com]
You can look up any large company on Glassdoor. The available evaluations aren't especially useful, unless you register. There is a fee for registration, but that can be bypassed by submitting your own evaluation. There is no guarantee that the evaluations you read are of any quality, or accuracy. Even so, this particular service is useful, in that you can guage how many people are extremely dissatisfied with a company (That is, so dissastisfied that they search out a forum to voice their complaints), and whether their complaints follow a trend.