> No matter how you try to spin this, it's by all accounts an act of discrimination to pay one person less than another purely based on where they live. Think a

> No matter how you try to spin this, it's by all accounts an act of discrimination to pay one person less than another purely based on where they live. Think about it: if a company pays a person less because of the color of their skin or their gender, the company would be in big trouble. But somehow it's OK to pay a person less based on their location? Yes, yes it absolutely is. My favorite example is a train conductor in the deepest netherworld of Saxony and a train conductor in Munich. Both perform the absolutely same work, both in complexity and time, and yet with the usual "everyone gets paid the same" collective agreement, either the train conductor in Munich can't even rent a 1br apartment, or the train conductor in Munich barely scrapes by while his colleague in Saxony lives in a mansion. Wage schedules in any multihomed organization have to be CoL based, there's no way around that.