If you live in Denver, or elsewhere in the state of Colorado, it can be difficult to find a job, especially telecommuting.
Anxious to reduce pay inequalities between men and women and to increase transparency in this area, the local authorities promulgated, in January, a law requiring all companies recruiting in the State to publish the salary or the salary range of each station, including remote work.
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The measure turns into a sanction against workers in this state of 5.5 million people, says the
Wall Street Journal
. To avoid revealing this information, some employers do not hesitate to stipulate on their offers for teleworking positions:
“Residents of Colorado, abstain. "
With giant Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical, accounting recruitment ads and Operations Director include this warning:"
The workplace is flexible, but this job can not be performed remotely from Colorado.
At commercial real estate giant CBRE, an ad for a project management director reads:
“This job can be done remotely from anywhere in the United States except the state of Colorado
. A professional association took legal action, but a federal judge ruled in May that there was no reason to oppose the law. Amazon bowed to it. For a remote computer scientist position, the online sales giant has indicated the average salary of its employees in this activity in Colorado, or 116,400 to 160,000 dollars.