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[–] 77 points 2 years ago (30 children)

Assuming this in America, I love how illegal this request is.

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago (19 children)

    I've been asked illegal questions, like "what is your current salary" in job applications before. I like to respond by calling it out and leaving a link to a source. I've never gotten a response from those applications though...

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    That's illegal? The income question was on every single application I filled out when I was younger. When did it become illegal?

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It is in CA, which is where both I and the company I was applying for were based at the time

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Hmm, I lived in California for a long time and companies definitely asked on a regular basis. Do you know when it was made illegal?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    "How much money are you looking for in this role" is very common. "How much are you making right now" is not allowed.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    This depends entirely on where you are. This article is from last year, so it could have changed since then, but there is no federal prohibition on requesting your current pay in an interview, @AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Love the swing states with preemptive laws on the books to prevent progress

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    How is it even legal to pass a law saying you can't regulate this thing? That seems highly contestable.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Probably for the same reason its perfectly legal for a state with republican controlled state senate to hold a post-election lame duck session where they shove through a bunch of legislation limiting the powers of the state governor because their guy happened to lose the election

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I've been asked illegal questions, like "what is your current salary" in job applications before. I like to respond by calling it out and leaving a link to a source.

    Ok, where is said source?

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Section #25

    (Given both I and the company I was applying for were CA based at the time)

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    For the lazy:

    1. May a prospective employer ask me what I am currently paid or was paid in the past?

    Effective January 1, 2018, Labor Code section 432.3 prohibits an employer from, either orally or in writing, personally or through an agent, asking any information concerning an applicant’s salary history information, which includes compensation as well as benefits. Furthermore, the law prohibits an employer from relying on an applicant’s salary history information as a factor in determining whether to offer employment at all or in determining what salary to offer.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Time to pick a random minority one can pass as, record the most stereotypical video ever, and then get an employment attorney on speed dial

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Nobody's going to take that case unless you have enough money to fund this as a vanity project. The conservative stacked courts will dismiss it out of hand and you'll be fighting your way uphill through a sea of increasingly hostile appellates.

    You'd have better luck posting this shit to social media and trying to name/shame the business at hand. But even that is likely a dead-end, given how inundated with corporate flaks and civility police the modern social media ecosystem has become.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Right to Work State, baby! We can do whatever we want good luck getting the Federalist Society Judge who fields your case to agree anything untoward happened.

    My job application will demand a pair of your used underwear for me to evaluate with my nostrils and you will do it or you will not get the job.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    "Since our corporation maintains an office in Texas, we've had your case moved to a Texas court district with exactly one judge who just so happened to be appointed by trump to rule for corporations, enjoy running it up to the SCOTUS judges I take on cruises with me"

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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    I couldn’t find any legal cases about “uploading an image or video of yourself”. But Google is awful so getting any sort of results is a massive pain. That doesn’t mean a case exists but employers do discriminate based on applicant names. Uploading an image would allow employers to filter out people they don’t want to hire based on income, disability, race, etc. That’s what’s illegal. Unfortunately, American laws related to technology are nonexistent.

    https://www.eeoc.gov/prohibited-employment-policiespractices

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