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Regulation like this would be absurd considering anyone can legally publish their salary publicly. Salaries are not public because employees want them not to be
by eldude 11y ago
Regulation like this would be absurd considering anyone can legally publish their salary publicly. Salaries are not public because employees want them not to be public.
I don't want lawmakers or trade unions undermining my right to privacy under some manipulative power-play guise of "fairness". We are all free to make our salaries public, if we think it is in our best interest to do so, let's talk about and focus on that and not be so naive as to believe regulations will magically solve a cultural issue.
- Teodolfo 11y agoIn the USA, outside of California and possibly a few other states, it isn't clear this is legal. Employers may be able to prohibit employees from publishing their salaries, although they can't prohibit employees from discussing compensation with each other.
- eldude 11y agoOkay. This is a good data point and where I think we culturally and legally should be focusing our attention; laws should be passed to expand employee liberties and ensure the right to disclose wages for a specific class of employees before considering laws to regulate and encumber businesses.
- thirdtruck 11y agoYou say that, but I've received offer letters where I was expected to keep my salary secret. Companies are demonstrably interested in suppressing such information.