• orcrist@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    The article is written by people who don’t know history. Talking about salaries was never taboo, as the law clearly states, and of course unions always have done so, but companies tried to pretend the topic was off limits.

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      1 year ago

      Taboo and illegal are not the same though

      It’s definitely been taboo within us companies

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      Talking about salaries was never taboo

      The employee handbook of Cobleskill Regional Hospital in Upstate NY in 2000 put talking about your pay with another employee as a fireable offense.

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        Yes of course. Companies can put a lot of things in their company handbooks if they want to, and that comes with legal risk.