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>Tax declarations are public information there and you can find out the salary of anyone pretty easily. This true of almost all of the Nordics. For example, yo
by dieFledermaus 7y ago
>Tax declarations are public information there and you can find out the salary of anyone pretty easily.
This true of almost all of the Nordics. For example, you can perform the same request from Skatteverket in Sweden.
>IMHO that kind of transparency is actually a good thing to have and helps prevent unfair practices where (e.g.: men get more than women or nepotism gets you access to better salaries).
This isn't implicitly true. If it were, Iceland wouldn't have had to pass a law to make unfair salaries (based on gender[0]) illegal.
[0] - https://www.businessinsider.com/iceland-gender-pay-gap-law-2018-1?op=1&r=US&IR=T https://www.businessinsider.com/iceland-gender-pay-gap-law-2...
- dijit 7y agoI mean. You should still make it illegal to discriminate, even if the tools to identify discrimination are available. Otherwise what would you do with your discoveries? Vote with your wallet?
- fromthestart 7y ago>This isn't implicitly true. If it were, Iceland wouldn't have had to pass a law to make unfair salaries (based on gender) This of course presumes that any discrepancy in pay among genders is based solely on discrimination.