Re:Oracle allegedly underpaid $400M in wages to underreprese...
by TomMarius on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @02:35PM
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Because in most cases there are some or even many people who are available to work for less. The management then would argue that "you can't earn more than they do for the same work, everyone would have to get a raise but there is no justification for that". Secrecy makes it an individual discussion as a by-product.
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Re:Oracle allegedly underpaid $400M in wages to underreprese...
by yholio on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @02:48PM
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In either case, managers would not entertain talk about a raise unless there ware actually not that many people willing to do the same work for less. So a secret negotiation allows them to hide that information from the rest of the workers and only compensate those aware of their market worth. An open negotiation would not lower compensation for the latter since they can always just quit, it would raise salaries for the less informed.