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[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] unfreeradical 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess lying to employees about the law is just what families do.

[–] 1847953620 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

we're like a family. The kind of family you move away from forever and drink to forget for the rest of your life.

[–] unfreeradical 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What matters most is understanding, even if we have our own doubts about the methods, that everything corporations do is done out of love.

[–] Evotech 46 points 1 year ago

Taboo and illegal are not the same though

It's definitely been taboo within us companies

[–] snausagesinablanket 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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