> Republican Rep. Chris Richardson, an Elbert County Republican, argued that the bill is too broad and could regulate standard analytic usage in the workplace, such as a human resources software that recommends a pay band for employees based on performance.

He does not think this is is just selling it further? Oh no, it might prohibit software automatically determining my wages, how could we even have a society if we don't let computers figure out the least they can pay me without me quitting.

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Balgair 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Oh man the Colorado GOP is a complete mess these days.

One of the frontrunners for the governorship is just spouting straight antisemitic garbage: https://www.9news.com/article/news/politics/gop-gubernatoria...

Edit: He withdrew this morning and is running for the GOP chair now.

Bobert is quiet these days but I'm sure she'll ramp up after her primary closes.

The various school boards are perennial sources of my idiocy. My (former) board would go into public meetings and just openly and freely admit to crimes.

The county commissioners in DougCo recently decided to fine the victims of shoplifting from r not reporting it. No, you didn't read that wrong.

So, in summary, the GOP and many, but not all, of their state level membership aren't really sending their best these days.

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tzs 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How do you get from "pay band [...] based on performance" to "least they can pay me without quitting"?

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cobertos 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Why would corporate software be incentivized to recommend a pay band any higher than the least the employee would take? The incentives are not aligned

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tzs 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Choosing a pay band based on performance and setting the pay bands as low as they can losing all their employees are orthogonal.

Suppose you are an employer and you have 5 junior engineers. You wish to promote one to senior engineer, which includes a move to a higher pay band. How do you decide which one gets the promotion?

Most companies are going to decide which one to promote at least partly based on performance data. Do they consistently finish things on time? What is the defect rate in their work? Do they work well with others? Do they need a lot of help compared to their peers or are the who their peers turn to when the peers need help? Does their work show skill above what would normally be found in junior engineer work?

From what has been quoted by or about the objects that one representative had it is that he thinks the bill has been written too broadly and could be construed as prohibiting using job performance data like that in deciding promotions.

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AlexeyBelov 2 days ago | parent [-]

My teamlead decides to promote me, not robots or algorithms.

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tuhgdetzhh 2 days ago | parent [-]

I call bs. Please stop posting LLM comments.

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AlexeyBelov 21 hours ago | parent [-]

How was my comment an LLM comment?

	▲	etyhhgfff 20 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Its quite obvious. Reported to mods.

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margalabargala 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Most companies want not the least an employee will take right now, but the least that will keep that employee around rather than jumping ship.

	▲	thunderfork 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		And when an industry at large is using RealPage for Wages, those two numbers may become increasingly similar

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jrochkind1 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think most people getting a paycheck get there on their own, and this guy is accidentally helping to sell the bill.

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LocalH 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

current and historical capitalist trends, that's how

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thegreatpeter 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

“I absolutely agree that consumers and wage earners should not be exploited by the use of their data,” he said. “But it’s still overly broad and it’s still overly vague in very important parts. And I believe it’s overly simplistic in its definition of wage setting.”

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kelnos 3 days ago | parent [-]

That's standard conservative speak for "don't interfere with business practices". "Overly broad" is just a way to shut down discussion.

	▲	adestefan 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		That’s juicy coming from the current Republican Party.