Timeline for Found out a coworker's salary after looking at her boss's unlocked computer
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| Oct 5, 2018 at 9:51 | vote | accept | Nickpick | ||
| Oct 4, 2018 at 12:40 | comment | added | Nickpick | "Your friend won't be arrested" - this clearly must be from the US where everybody gets potentially arrested for everything. It's clear that it's not an offence where police would get involved - my terminology 'illegal' was probably a poor choice of words. It's a company internal matter, and the question is only if it could justify an internal disciplinary procedure that could lead to dismissal - but I was wondering if it's permissible to deny that information to a worker at all. Anyway, thanks for all your support, the outcome was a happy ending and no disciplinary procedure was initiated. | |
| Oct 1, 2018 at 18:35 | history | edited | Joe Strazzere | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 1, 2018 at 18:00 | comment | added | brhans | "It's not illegal to discuss pay with others" - shouldn't that read "It's not illegal to discuss your pay with others". Finding out someone else's pay (by whatever means) and disclosing that to others doesn't seem at all right. | |
| Sep 30, 2018 at 21:39 | comment | added | Bill Leeper | This is not about legality, but company policy, and she CAN be disciplined for not following company policy. Salary is almost always considered a competitive advantage for companies for a lot of reasons. Seeing the salary and keeping it to herself, or just realizing that she should be paid more would have been the right approach here. Sharing that 'bob' was making x and she wants x is never going to end well. There are a host of reasons someone might have been making more or less. She is largely in trouble here for sharing it | |
| Sep 30, 2018 at 11:42 | history | edited | Joe Strazzere | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 30, 2018 at 11:34 | history | edited | Joe Strazzere | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 30, 2018 at 11:32 | comment | added | Nickpick | added a slight correction to the situation: The person who left the screen open was her boss. And the visible salary was of a co-worker at her level who has since left the company. | |
| Sep 30, 2018 at 11:25 | history | answered | Joe Strazzere | CC BY-SA 4.0 |