The rule with discussing salaries is that you can do it (and you should do it), but you shouldn’t let your managers know you’re doing it. The law is on your side, but nobody with actual authority wants to support you doing it.
So, if you’re on your way out in a contested wrongful termination case, there’s definitely leverage in pointing to your employer firing you for discussing salaries with your coworkers. But in every other case, you gotta play those cards close to the chest. Nod and smile and agree with every manager who says you shouldn’t discuss salaries. Then do as thou wilt.
Imagine living in a place where managers are coerced and/or encouraged to trample employers rights.
That kind of bullshit only engourages the employees to look for a new job. If somebody does a good job in the long run its cheaper to pay them well and keep them in house instead of hiring continually new people and having everytime a coin toss if they even know what they are doing and spending time to train them.
The rule with discussing salaries is that you can do it (and you should do it), but you shouldn’t let your managers know you’re doing it. The law is on your side, but nobody with actual authority wants to support you doing it.
So, if you’re on your way out in a contested wrongful termination case, there’s definitely leverage in pointing to your employer firing you for discussing salaries with your coworkers. But in every other case, you gotta play those cards close to the chest. Nod and smile and agree with every manager who says you shouldn’t discuss salaries. Then do as thou wilt.
That’s not a rule.
That is shitty workplace culture that needs to change.
Imagine living in a place where managers are coerced and/or encouraged to trample employers rights.
That kind of bullshit only engourages the employees to look for a new job. If somebody does a good job in the long run its cheaper to pay them well and keep them in house instead of hiring continually new people and having everytime a coin toss if they even know what they are doing and spending time to train them.