Supervisor sent out email to everyone with the title of it being “CONFIDENTIAL” and all that was attached was our pay and pay increase for the year (It was bad ya’ll).
My understanding is that it’s illegal to try to prevent employees from speaking about pay. Marking as confidential sure does imply you’ll get in trouble for sharing it, but not sure if it’s enough of a problem that I should raise it with HR.
Anyone with more experience in the matter have an opinion?
EDIT: I guess some important context is this was added onto some other things they did. Like straight up saying we can’t verbally, and then heavy implication in a team meeting that we shouldn’t talk to each other about it and should bring it up to our supervisors. Of course neither of those were recorded.
I was just curious if this was a big enough deal for them to get a reminder that they can’t do that nonsense. Sounds like it’s not. But I also have OCPD so my sense of rule following is very extreme, and why I decided I should check in with ya’ll before I do anything.
I guess I should have added context that they openly are trying to discourage talking about pay, but only ever verbally said so in the past. My biggest concern is my co-workers don’t seem aware that it can’t legally be an enforce dpolicy, and I was wondering if this was enough to throw a fit.
But at the same time I am diagnosed OCPD, so perceived rule breaking of others does an absolute TRIP in my brain. So that’s why I asked ya’ll before doing anything.
So maybe the best course is just to one by one kindly remind people that no matter what middle management say in team meetings, if they want to talk about their pay, they should and legally are protected in doing so.
Of course its in their best interest for you not to, that doesn’t mean they can do a damn thing about it.
You could put up some posters informing folks of their rights… At least if you can do it discreetly enough to not be spotted.