legal minimum pay is what everyone will get If there weren't any bad things to talk about then people only got the minimum anyway. This stops companies buying

legal minimum pay is what everyone will get If there weren't any bad things to talk about then people only got the minimum anyway. This stops companies buying the silence of people who'd keep quiet for more cash, which stops bad companies who do bad things from hiding their bad things so easily and it stops people who'll keep quiet about bad things for personal profit from gaining. That's a win win.