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WG: Employees should know colleagues' salaries, if they suspect discrimination

• CRConrad 5y ago
  (Title shortened.)
• elmerfud 5y ago
  Salaries should be transparent, even if you don't suspect discrimination. The only reason for companies to keep salaries secret or demand that employees not disclose their salary to each other is because the company cannot justify pay differentials. That's really it. They don't want people, especially longer term employees, to know their true value.
• CRConrad 5y ago
  Last paragraph: > Unions were unhappy that the proposals would not apply to employers with fewer than 30 employees. OK, seems legit. > A business lobby group, meanwhile, expressed concerns about workers' privacy. Sure, privacy concerns are import-- Hey no, wait, let's look at that again: a business lobby group was concerned about workers' privacy? Yeah right, that must have been their primary concern. Not.