A lot of employees assume pay discrimination only matters if it's systemic — like the large corporate cases that make national headlines.
But California's Equal Pay Act protects individual workers too. One employee, one comparator, one pay disparity that can't be explained by legitimate factors — that can be enough.
Document your role, collect your pay records, and don't wait for a "watershed moment." Your situation matters now.
I like the #CaliforniaEqualPayAct .
Among other things, it requires organizations with 15+ employees to include what they consider reasonable pay scales in their job listings.
This is convenient for me because it allows me to avoid companies and roles that fall short of my expectations.
Before this law, I had actually completed interviews only to be offered half of what I was currently making. Now I can avoid having my time wasted like that.
But this week, a company's recruiter reached out to me via #LinkedIn with a job that I'd be a great fit for, but without a pay scale, not in the message nor in the company's listings on its web site. (It has near 20,000 workers.) I reported the deficiency to the recruiter, as I did with another of its recruiters about 3 months earlier. Both times, they ghosted me afterward. Only this time, I was sure to report the company's continued non-compliance to the State of #California .
California United Law Group
John Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺