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> Almost every job I've had with a company that's of any decent size (e.g. ten years ago when I worked for a five man moving company) has made it pretty clear t
by vonmoltke 13y ago
> Almost every job I've had with a company that's of any decent size (e.g. ten years ago when I worked for a five man moving company) has made it pretty clear that sharing compensation numbers with a coworker was an immediately fireable offense. I never really considered whether or not that would be typical outside of the US. Anyone care to comment? I'd be interested to know.
Almost every job may say that, but in almost every case that provision is illegal[1] and grounds for a lawsuit if they actually carried it out.
[1] http://www.twc.state.tx.us/news/efte/salary_discussions.html http://www.twc.state.tx.us/news/efte/salary_discussions.html
- doorhammer 13y agoInteresting; thanks for the link. I'm going to read it over in a little bit (making food). I'm not beyond believing that it's mostly just common lore, and I'm definitely going to look into it. An unrelated instance of something like this would be how most hourly workers think they're legally obligated to get a lunch break and a paid break if they work x hours, when in the states I've lived in there's no legal requirement, except under specific circumstances (I think missouri was for employees under 16 working in certain kinds of service industries).