salary/job survey

[Scott Amspoker]

In article <27363 at bcsaic.UUCP> chrise at bcsaic.UUCP (Chris Esposito) writes:
>In article <680 at sci34hub.UUCP> gary at sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes:
>
>>BTW, most companies (mine included) prohibit employees from 
>>disclosing salary. I don't know a good way for you to handle that.
>
>Really? I've never heard of such a prohibition.  While disclosing your (or
>someone else's) salary may, under certain circumstances, be unethical or
>unwise or simply none of their business, it seems to me that it is my decision
>to make, not my employers.  Does this prohibition extend to disclosing what
>other benefits you get?  How about telling your spouse what you make?

Such prohibitions are illegal.  An employee has a protected right to
disclose *his own* salary.  Any attempt to prevent an employee from doing
so may be construed as an attempt to prevent *unionization* (a
corporate no-no).

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Scott Amspoker
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