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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:
- How do you see the recruiters you are working with handling your requests for compensation information?
- Do they drop you like a hot potato?
- Do they answer your questions, like a legitimate business partner?
- How do you see recruiters working from outside California dealing with this issue?
- Do they even know that the law exists?
- Do they care?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday October 23 2018, @08:19AM
My client from 2001-2002 was a hedge fund in the Bahamas, which invested two hundred million dollars of just one guy's money.
He mostly hired British coders "Because they work cheap".
Their Director Of Research - really their head coder - asked me what a certain unfamiliar construction was in my C++ source. "That's an initialization list", then I explained that Initialization Lists are part of what enables C++ data initialization to have Transactional Commit-Rollback Semantics, just like databases.
He and I chatted about this for an hour or so, because their codebase had at least one hundred man-years of C++ source in it, yet I was the very first engineer to even know what an Initialization List was. Perhaps it's no coincidence that their system was always dropping dead. It took days to weeks to restart it, because they had to re-sync their model with real trade price history.
So what kind of sense does this make?
That guy who was worth $200M? He emailed me one day to say I should come down on my rate by three grand per month, because I lived in Maine. The going rate for Maine coders was quite a lot less than for Silicon Valley coders. My reply?
"When I lived in Santa Cruz" - not actually in The Valley, but for business purposes it was - "My code was worth ten grand a month. I'm writing the very same high quality code for you now, so my code is _still_ worth ten grand a month".
He griped about it every time he paid me, but he did continue to pay me ten grand. However, he tried to stiff me out of half my last paycheck. It took a lawsuit threat to get him to cough up. That only worked because hedge funds are very secretive about their methods, in his cause, secretive about his fund's very existence. He didn't want the lawsuit transcript to become public knowledge.
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