Ex-Googler says she exposed company-wide pay inequality with spreadsheet

Re:Ex-Googler says she exposed company-wide pay inequality w... by dogma1138 on Saturday July 18, 2015 @07:17AM (#9907260)

That's no longer true. Tax information isn't being posted online now in Sweden you can make a "FOIA" request but you have to have a legitimate reason now to obtain it.

The public tax records were too often abused for harassment, political extortion and plain crime such as burglary and fraud so they pulled the plug on online publishing of tax records.

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Re:Ex-Googler says she exposed company-wide pay inequality w... by kristoffer on Saturday July 18, 2015 @09:23AM (#9907488)

No you don't need any reason. You can go to the tax office and use their public computer for example.

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Re:Ex-Googler says she exposed company-wide pay inequality w... by dogma1138 on Saturday July 18, 2015 @02:38PM (#9908431)

Is this from personal experience? because from all what i could gather since 2011/2010 tax records are only issued on demand using a FOIA request form and you need to specify a legitimate reason to access them.

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Re:Ex-Googler says she exposed company-wide pay inequality w... by tom_mellior on Saturday July 18, 2015 @09:13AM (#9907471)

But isn't "I believe my company is treating me unfairly by paying me less for equal work" a legitimate reason?

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Re:Ex-Googler says she exposed company-wide pay inequality w... by brianwawok on Saturday July 18, 2015 @11:48AM (#9907813)

Do you get full W2 type info, or just the joint income of the family? It would be hard to tell a coworkers income if it is lumped in with their spouses income + investment income + whatever.. vs seeing line item income for that person.

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Re:Ex-Googler says she exposed company-wide pay inequality w... by kpil on Saturday July 18, 2015 @02:01PM (#9908299)

It's individual, but capital income is included.

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