Cheapskate Kansas City Employers Now Forbidden From Asking About Salary History

Follow-up on local legislation that might help local workers BOLD ENOUGH to ask for more cash in the midst of a recession that only really impacts broke-ass folks on the low-end of the pay scale. Checkit:

Job seekers protected from salary history discussion in KC beginning Thursday

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A new ordinance goes into effect Thursday, October 31 in KCMO which, will make employers asking job seekers for salary history information illegal in the city.The ordinance was passed unanimously by the City Council in May of 2019.

Comments

  1. The City Council, whose members have never and will never hire anybody to work at a for profit business, somehow know what is and what is not important for employers to know about a potential hire. What arrogant asshats they are.

    ReplyDelete
  2. This is such a joke. I mean really? Illegal to ask a question about past pay?

    ReplyDelete
  3. ^^Yes. People are trying to change things dope. Get with it, or get lost!

    ReplyDelete
  4. ^^You get with it and know what you"re talking about before you open your piehole.

    ReplyDelete
  5. ^^Why? You didn't.

    ReplyDelete
  6. SLie's Shitty Clowncil passed this back in May that explains all of it.

    ReplyDelete
  7. Whats next make it illegal to ask a potential renter if they are employed because it would be discriminatory?

    ReplyDelete
  8. ^^I don't know Maude. Why don't you ask the city and quit boring us with this unimportant shit?

    ReplyDelete
  9. 11:34

    Go back to your donuts gramps.

    ReplyDelete
  10. All regulatory actions create more friction in the hiring process thereby increasing unemployment or depressing wages. The irony is it is most likely to harm those at the bottom of the employment ladder because prospective employers are less likely to chance hiring them.

    ReplyDelete
  11. I'm am going to ask anyways. A job applicant who brings up this ordinance as a reason why they won't tell me what they are making now says all I need to know about whether to hire him/her.

    ReplyDelete
  12. It never should have been any of their business.

    ReplyDelete
  13. 12:18 is dead on the money

    ReplyDelete
  14. ^^dumbass if it’s on your application all I got to do is screenshot it and report to city. Why you got to be a prick. You know what you are going to pay for a position so put the range in the job listing. Enlighten me as to why knowing how much someone made in the past equates to how much you are willing to pay? Clearly this ordinance is made for dumb asses like you.

    ReplyDelete
  15. Good. Funny how companies don't want their employees to talk to each other about salaries or bonuses but they want to ask you about it. When I worked in Ireland it was completely common for employees to speak to each other about salaries and I found the rest of Europe was that way as well. It is only done here as another way for management to keep you down.

    ReplyDelete
  16. ^^You are correct. Employers asking for past salaries serve nothing but their own self interest to know how little they can pay you and/or they not hire you because they know you won’t stay long if you make less than at the new job than your past employment. A myth because some people will work for less depending on commute, benefits and stress level from a toxic boss.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

TKC COMMENT POLICY:

Be percipient, be nice. Don't be a spammer. BE WELL!!!

- The Management