Companies are avoiding hiring in Colorado

>In May of 2019 SB19-085, titled the Equal Pay For Equal Work Act, was signed into law in Colorado. It's a fairly short read if you're not familiar with it, but its main goal is enabling pay transparency to allow for people to know if they're being discriminated against with their wages and file a complaint with the CDLE.

There are going to be many quirks to the rise of remote work. It's easier to gauge how much and what type of work your fellow employees are doing when you're spending 40 hours a week in close proximity. When everyone is remote, it's much more difficult to know who is doing equal work to your work.

This also raises the issue of what to do if one of your employees moves to Colorado. In the past, it wouldn't be an issue since they were unlikely to commute from Colorado back to their old office. Even if your office is just outside of Colorado and your employee moved across the border, it likely would be the laws of the location of your office that would be enforced rather than the laws of where your employee lives. So now what does the employer do? Fire the employee when they move? HR will need policies that require notification of moves immediately. What if someone moves and doesn't notify HR? Does the law still apply? Sure, the employee can be fired for cause for not notifying HR of their move but does that nullify Colorado law as far as publishing salary ranges goes?

Back in 2019 my employer laid off our recruiter in Colorado. I wonder if that was related to this new law.

Colorado is seemingly gambling on other states to follow suit, since else this law will obviously keep having a negative impact on the residents of the state. It's insane how many job openings are excluding CO (especially big companies such as Accenture).