Re:Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory
by blitzar on Friday November 06, 2026 @04:48AM
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The second is completely solved ... its called a bonus.
Re:Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory
by pembrook on Friday November 06, 2026 @04:52AM
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Now you've permanently handed power to employers to claim every year is "a tough year" and pay people less, while tricking people into taking jobs under the pretense of "the salary is low but you usually get a crazy big bonus!"
Re:Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory
by blitzar on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:03AM
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> Let me guess, your next rebuttal
My actual response "But then we will have to deal with biases, discretion and management collecting their 10mil bonus by giving the juniors a pittance"
The flip side of course is people who actually work in bonus heavy revenue generating roles tend to leave if they are not valued appropriately - and take their clients with them.
Re:Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory
by tancop on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:09AM
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The only policy that's needed is unions everywhere with industry wide bargaining like they do in Denmark. Or even better employee ownership.
Re:Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory
by brainwad on Friday November 06, 2026 @09:36AM
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The thing about employee ownership is that, almost by definition, employees don't have much capital (that's why they live by selling their labour) and businesses need capital to survive. That capital has a cost, either interest on loans or profits going to outside shareholders.
- Some employee salary discrepancies are inefficiencies due to humans sucking at rationally evaluating other people
- Some employee salary discrepancies are legitimate outcomes of value produced relative to other employees
The problem is the more we create policy assuming the first one is true, we eliminate everyone in the second category (however small or large that category), making the economy less efficient. I would argue pay transparency isn't one of those policies however, and in fact would lead to more efficiencies.
All interventions have consequences, and less growth and higher inefficiency from cutting tall poppies is indeed a risk. As someone in Europe, our total lack of productivity growth is leading to collapsing governments and social welfare systems. These are serious issues that should be discussed and not dismissed outright with downvotes.