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Posted by 1659447091 1 day ago

Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory(www.reuters.com)
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shantnutiwari 1 day ago|
In UK, in my experience, companies always do release this (at least in tech). They might give a range, but it si there.

European companies on the other hand, have made me jump thru hoops and the nlow ball me

DarkIye 1 day ago||
>The government will soon introduce legislation to parliament making salary disclosures mandatory, Burnham's office said, although it did not provide a timeline.

won't happen

InsidiousWombat 1 day ago||
Make companies post anonymized salary lists next
voidUpdate 1 day ago||
Can we also make it mandatory to reply to a job application, even just an automated "sorry, your application has been rejected", so you know whether to keep considering that job?
andsoitis 1 day ago|
If you do t hear back in a week, they’re just not that into you. Silence is an answer.
randyrand 1 day ago||
As a small employer, I don't mind to provide a number. I'll always provide a number if I have one in mind.

But anything intellectual, me providing a number is not as useful as you think. Often, I just don't know. Especially hiring outside my expertise.

I assume every applicant is worth $0 and it's up to them to convince me otherwise. I'm willing to go as high as you can convince me. .

paxy 1 day ago|
The number you write isn't what the person is worth but what the position you are hiring for is worth.
SpicyLemonZest 1 day ago|||
For a small business, that's often pretty hard to define. How much is your first marketing hire worth? Depends on how much business they bring in and how much they can get done before you need the second one. You can't identify in advance what marketing work is to be done and how important it will be - that's what you need the marketing hire for!

I'm not saying it's impossible to comply with salary disclosure, but it's harder than people think to make the disclosure "real".

BobaFloutist 22 hours ago||
I mean you've got to pay them something while you wait to find out how much business they'll end up bringing in, so you can start with that...?

Unless you're paying on contingency, in which case you can absolutely just advertise that you're paying directly on contingency and provide the formula. That seems fine to me.

duxup 1 day ago||
Could they potentially just choose to pay more than the disclosure?
CSMastermind 1 day ago||
This is the only market where people think this is a reasonable thing to do, mostly because it's the only market in which most people are sellers not buyers.

Imagine if the government passed a law saying that when you got to a restaurant (or car wash, or bookstore, etc) you had to declare to the business what you're willing to pay before we see the menu so that the business could adjust their prices accordingly.

cowlevel 16 hours ago|
Because it's not about who's the seller or who's the buyer, it's about who has a whole institutional structure set up for doing the thing and who is doing it casually. When you walk into a pawn shop or one of those tacky-looking high street gold buyer places, you may sell them your valuables or buy someone else's valuables, but either way the shop is the shop and you are the customer. You don't become the shop when the shop is buying from you.
eudamoniac 1 day ago||
Pro tip. When a recruiter contacts you with a position, the literal first message you send should be a request for salary range. In my experience they will tell you ~80% of the time and then you proceed normally. This saves untold hours on both ends.
pluc 1 day ago||
The worst is when you apply and they ask for a range which you give.. then you get rejected because you demanded too much. Bitch, negotiate.
100111011111 1 day ago|
Ha in the European Union, the workarounds are vast and came fast, now it doesn't have to be in the job listing but upon first real interaction or something along the lines, and then I've seen job ads saying 1-5000 euro per month.

Ghost jobs and such practices should demand mandatory time in the slammer and business foreclosure

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