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• bemenaker@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Nope. Youre making a mountain out of an ant hill. The company probably has to mark your pay info as confidential. It’s your personal info, if you want to share it you can, just like medical info. Unless it’s company policy to post everyone’s pay publicly. In that case, everyone’s pay would be posted, but if not, they can’t tell others, but you can.

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  • Yawnder@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    They’re just looking for trouble imo.

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• Hello_there@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Confidential for them to tell other people what your pay is.
  Completely free for you to say what it is if you choose to.
  Dno if that changes if you're a contractor of some kind.

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• originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  just my 2 cents. youre being oversensitive. marking 'confidential' by some message system != 'dont tell anyone or else'

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  • ericbomb@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    It was manually marked as confidential, are system doesn’t put it in all caps by itself.

    And what exactly do YOU think confidential means?

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    • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      i think its not worth yours or anyone elses time sweating.

      if you want to share your information with someone else you work with, you are legally entitled, go do that.

      picking a fight over an email is just a stupid waste of resources.

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    • BottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Marking it as confidential in an email is not them telling you that you can’t share your own info. It’s warning you that the info inside the email may be something you don’t want to open when presenting etc.

      A lot of companies will try to discourage you from talking about your pay. Unless they actually take action against you (i.e. teprimand/firing) there isn’t anything that you could bring to HR or a court.

      Your reaction seems extreme for what would be typical corporate policy (i.e. confidential on an email like that).

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• Neato@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Confidential is a wrong way to label that. It's
  PII: Personally Identifiable Information. So they must protect it so people don't forward it and expose stuff like addresses and SSN. But it's YOUR piiy do you can share it freely. And what you're paid isn't PII. Only other identifying information that probably goes along with it.

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• bunnyknuckles@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  It’s not illegal to try to prevent you from discussing wages. It’s is illegal to punish or retaliate against you for doing so. HR doesn’t care.

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• kiwifoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I have to mark emails I’m sending to others about pay as confidential to protect the company and myself. What you do with it after that point is up to you.

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• Yazer@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Was there other information in there like your name, address, SIN, etc?

  As others have said, not a big deal.

  HR would probably not understand your concern, and most likely no action will ever be taken from it.

  At least you got a raise tho! Congrats on that

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• fubo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  No US employer may legally forbid their workers from discussing their wages or working conditions with one another for the purpose of labor organization.

  en.wikipedia.org/…/National_Labor_Relations_Act_o…

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• SHITPOSTING_ACCOUNT@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  You probably have limited practical ways to do something about it (aside from freely talking to your coworkers, reporting to the NLRB if you’re in the US, and hoping they care), and anything you do does risk retaliation (illegal, but you need to understand that being right doesn’t mean people follow the law, or that the law will be enforced effectively).

  Obviously you should be looking for a less shitty job regardless.

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• Hello_there@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Confidential for them to tell other people what your pay is.
  Completely free for you to say what it is if you choose to.
  Dno if that changes if you're a contractor of some kind.

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• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I would say that you probably shouldn’t talk about what was in that email, but if you just happen to be talking to someone about what each of you makes, let them try to stop you.

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