In late 2017 California amended its labor laws to forbid employers from inquiring into previous compensation and to compel employers to provide candidates with pay range information upon reasonable request. I refer to Assembly Bills(AB) 168 and 2282, both of which passed and were approved by the Governor:
Assembly Bill 168 ("Employers: salary information") added Section 432.3 to the California Labor Code.
Assembly Bill 2282 ("Salary history information") amended Sections 432.3 and 1197.5 of the Labor Code to provide clarification on AB 168.
A brief summary of the changes brought about by AB 2282 is available on JDSupra: California Clarifies its Salary History Ban.
The California Labor Code is available on-line and you can use these links to read the text of Section 432.3 and of Section 1197.5
If you are a candidate, applying for a job in California:
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 22 2018, @07:29PM
Good work!
I have a set of autoreply messages:
"What is the salary range"
"How many days off do I get"
"It is illegal to ask my DOB or SSN before a job offer, are you offering me a job?"
"no thank you I'm not interested at this time"
Fucking waste their time every chance you get. It completely wrecks the business model.
Also give them sass. The other day someone was looking for an actually nicely compensated job "offer guaranteed" to entry level java devs in the middle of the sticks. I sent him a list of local community colleges and told him he could fill those positions in an hour if he stopped spamming people who already had nice jobs and started bothering people who needed work.