Re:Pay Transparency Is Coming
by KittenInABox on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @01:11PM
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Your value to the company is also constrained if the company pretend they can't afford your real worth, while they pay that worth to comparable employees. You don't know the worth you should be demanding because there's no transparency. The person was being cheated by their employer here.
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Re:Pay Transparency Is Coming
by jay_kyburz on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @01:34PM
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That's the point, you never have any grounds to demand more unless you have another job offer on the table.
When companies say they can't afford to pay you x, they mean they don't want to pay you x.
Yes, sure, perhaps the employee was being cheated, but pay transparency is not going to fix that, that just insures everybody is being cheated evenly.
The cheating happens when the profits of the company are not distributed to the people that run it, but to the people who own it.