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From: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: salary/job survey
Keywords: what do you do?  what do you make?
Message-ID: <846@bbxsda.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jul 90 19:43:43 GMT
References: <4839@uafhp.uark.edu> <680@sci34hub.UUCP> <27363@bcsaic.UUCP>
Reply-To: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker)
Organization: Basis International,  Albuquerque, NM
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In article <27363@bcsaic.UUCP> chrise@bcsaic.UUCP (Chris Esposito) writes:
>In article <680@sci34hub.UUCP> gary@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).

-- 
Scott Amspoker
Basis International, Albuquerque, NM
(505) 345-5232
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