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NYC Poised to Ban Firms From Asking Job Candidates About Pay (bloomberg.com)
In a vote this week, the New York City approved legislation that will ban employers from asking job applicants about what they make in their current or past job and could have far-reaching consequences beyond the city as employers try to standardize their practices. From a report: "This bill will go a long way in addressing wage disparities women -- and particularly women of color -- face," said Public Advocate Letitia James, who sponsored the measure. White women in New York earn on average 84 percent of what white men earn, while Asian women earn 63 percent, black women earn 55 percent and Hispanic women just 46 percent, according to a report from the advocate's office, based on U.S. Census data. Asking about pay in a job interview hurts women who may start from a lower level than male candidates -- an effect that compounds over time. "It perpetuates discrimination," James said. "And it has an effect on their pensions as well."
Exactly I mean does anyone really believe that Hispanic women in the same job would earn 46 cents on the dollar! That doesn't even make sense, typical left.
It's really starting to feel like the Dice era around here again. It seemed like things were getting better immediately after the sale, but it has gotten worse since. Every day we're subjected to more and more left-leaning "social justice" submissions and "climate change" submissions. There are lot more purely political submissions, too, without any direct connection to technology or computing or science or math or stuff that matters.
I can somewhat see the point of controversial subjects like "social justice", "climate change" and politics. They do generate a lot of comments (although most of them are utterly worthless), which probably means there are also more page views happening, which means more ad impressions. But that seems kind of pointless to do, when most people here likely use ad blockers. I know I've learned to visually ignore the embedded "Sponsored Content" fake submissions, too. So for most users this site is probably essentially ad-free.
The quality of the submission editing has never been very good around here, either, but it's really bad these days. Almost every day we're subjected to one (or sometimes even three, like on March 25!) submissions linking to the unremarkable "BetaNews" site. If we really wanted to be subjected to that much "BetaNews" content, we'd just go to the "BetaNews" site directly!
I really wish that Slashdot went back to focusing on relevant news that we can't really find anywhere else. You know, stuff about computer programming and open source software, instead of stale crap that CNN or MSNBC covered a few days ago.
Oh my god you have proven that the free market makes any kind of unjust discrimination impossible.
Time to go home, the problem of injustice has been solved.