Regulations restricting pay disclosure?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨ramble81@lemmy.zip⁩ to ⁨nostupidquestions@lemmy.world⁩

So I saw this little gem on a job posting. I’m curious, 1) is this legal based on how it’s phrased and 2) what regulation would prevent pay disclosure like this?

However, due to regulatory requirements, we are only able to consider candidates who reside in U.S. states that do not currently mandate salary disclosure in job postings

This includes, but is not limited to: Texas, Florida, Missouri, Arizona, Indiana, North Carolina, and Wisconsin.

Candidates residing in California, Colorado, New York Illinois, Washington, or other states with active pay transparency laws will not be considered at this time

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False@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
The way they’ve phrased it makes it sound like they think they’re sticking it to liberal states or something.

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justdaveisfine@piefed.social ⁨45⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
NAL but I don’t think this is illegal, though it is a pretty large red flag that you’re going to get lowballed.

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CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨25⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
It’s not laws that prevent disclosure. It’s laws that require it

states that do not currently mandate salary disclosure in job postings

other states with active pay transparency laws will not be considered at this time

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radix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
Some states have required that job postings must include a pay range for the job in question, so since the company won’t post the range, they refuse to hire in those states.

Not a lawyer, but this sounds shady as hell. Also probably not illegal, since they are specifically avoiding the places where it IS illegal.

There are all sorts of (backwards, ignorant) reasons why they may not want to disclose the pay rate, but it immediately puts me into the worst assumption that it’s some sort of bait and switch scam. They can “unofficially” tell you what some people make, or what the mean earnings are (inflated due to a few high earners), to get you in the door, but most people won’t touch that. Like MLM job where you’re responsible for getting your own business. Or where you get a minimum wage base salary and a few people get huge commissions, but most barely scrape by.

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slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
The regulation require pay disclosure which is why they refuse to hire anyone from those locations.

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- ramble81@lemmy.zip ⁨28⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  The phrasing makes it sound like there’s a regulation preventing disclosure so they can’t post in states where a law says otherwise.
  
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  - False@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    Yeah, they’re intentionally being bring misleading about it. The regulation is that those states require disclosure, and they don’t want to comply
    
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  - slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨24⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    That is code for we will pay as little as possible to give execs more bonus for keeping employee costs down .
    
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rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
Unlikely that it’s actually any regulatory requirement, but I don’t see anything illegal about it either (though I’m not based in the US, so I don’t really know).

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