City Council Bans Employers Asking Previous Wage History

[Bronxguyanese]

Originally Posted by BBMW

I'm sure that's what the councilcritters that foist this nonsense think. But with the internet, does anyone REALLY need any particular physical location, especially for the type of white collar work that is mostly done in NYC nowadays. At some point the business community is going to look at the high rents, high taxes, and ridiculous regulations, and say "**********".

Don't worry. Automation will save business community here in NYC.

[BBMW]

I did corporate IT in NYC for almost thirty years. Automation will drive companies out of NYC, not keep them here. Hint, where is the cheapest electricity? It's not in NYC.

[Cida]

It's a great idea. Why do you object? Past salary is irrelevant. It's used against the applicant.

It just is a gateway to either rejecting the applicant due to his previous salary, or reducing the offer.

[Shizzles]

Originally Posted by NyWriterdude

Not happening. The businesses that are in NYC want to be in NYC because it's NYC. They aren't going anywhere. It was mainly manufacturing and back office that left NYC.

This is a very unwise assumption. A lot of NYers have this attitude that NYC is everything and people will suck whatever nonsense up to be here. The truth of the matter is NY competes against major European and Asian cities for the multi-national elite and against other tier 1 corporate centers like LA, SF, Dallas, ATL, DC, BOS, Houston for business talent. Let things spin too out of control wither it be taxes, crime or QOL issues and many executives will take themselves and their front office business to a nice posh NJ suburb and come into the city for dinner and a show. Without Wall St and the corporate sector, NY's welfare dream crashes down.