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[–] [email protected] 69 points 11 months ago (16 children)

Won't employers just adopt the same workaround that they're using in Colorado, by posting a huge pay range and hiring all employees near the bottom?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (8 children)

My employer gets around it by refusing to hire anyone in Colorado for remote jobs. Guess the same will happen for New York.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I feel like a business would have to be really dumb to rule out hiring NY'ers because of this. NY has a very educated and very large population.

Edit: I did the math. Colorado and NY have a combined college degree population of 9.9 million, or 8.9% of US degree holders.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago (1 children)

a business would have to be really dumb

I don’t see how this is a counterargument.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago

Lmao you got me there.

[–] jubilationtcornpone 7 points 11 months ago

I think one long term effect of this would be driving up wages outside of states that require posted salaries, at least for some positions in some industries. There probably aren't enough businesses signing on to this idea to make much of a dent though. As a business, you're effectively reducing your own labor pool. Either way it feels like the corporate equivalent of cutting off your nose to spite your face.

Probably the same idiots whining that "no one wants to work anymore" (cue worlds tiniest violin).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

They'll be out of states if we keep going then they'll naturally just cease to exist. Or, more likely, adapt to actual regulations.

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