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A couple of days ago my boss at work leaked every employee's pay rate, through an email.
The original email was supposed to contain an attachment for a form that every employee needed to fill out. Long story short, employees opened the email and saw that the attachment was of a document that had everyone's job description, and how much EVERY employee made an hour.
Before every employee took the job, we were asked to sign a form stating that we were NOT allowed to discuss pay rates with other employees, or talk about our pay publicly in ANY form.
A bunch of employees are pissed off, because less-qualified employees are making more money than people with better qualifications. Other employees that had more experience (8 years of experience), were making "X" amount of dollars less than employees with 4 years of experience. (Same background/qualifications)
Some employees also were pissed off because this was VERY personal information, and it was now public to everyone within our organization.
Another scenario was an employee that had a higher-level job in our organization. Our boss stated that he would be making "X" amount of dollars, and he agreed to it. The email also included the minimum pay that you were supposed to make for each position. Turns out that this employee should have been making about "X" amount of dollars more per hour the whole time, but our boss never told him about that. He never knew until the email was leaked.
Our boss sent us an apology through email stating that it was a "mistake". We also received an email from our boss' boss, apologizing as well.
A meeting was held a few days later and our boss read us a 2 sentence apology from a sheet of paper, and continued on as if nothing had happened. Showed no remorse for anyone.
Can anything be done, LEGALLY? Possibly..
CLIFF NOTES:
-Boss sends email that was supposed to contain a "form" for employees to fill out
-Email actually contains a document with EVERY employees pay rate
-Every employee signed form before taking the job stating that pay rates are not allowed to be discussed, and action would be taken if caught.
-Employees get pissed off, discover they may have been getting $%#@ over.
-Boss apologizes, apology seems insincere. Causes drama within the organization.
The original email was supposed to contain an attachment for a form that every employee needed to fill out. Long story short, employees opened the email and saw that the attachment was of a document that had everyone's job description, and how much EVERY employee made an hour.
Before every employee took the job, we were asked to sign a form stating that we were NOT allowed to discuss pay rates with other employees, or talk about our pay publicly in ANY form.
A bunch of employees are pissed off, because less-qualified employees are making more money than people with better qualifications. Other employees that had more experience (8 years of experience), were making "X" amount of dollars less than employees with 4 years of experience. (Same background/qualifications)
Some employees also were pissed off because this was VERY personal information, and it was now public to everyone within our organization.
Another scenario was an employee that had a higher-level job in our organization. Our boss stated that he would be making "X" amount of dollars, and he agreed to it. The email also included the minimum pay that you were supposed to make for each position. Turns out that this employee should have been making about "X" amount of dollars more per hour the whole time, but our boss never told him about that. He never knew until the email was leaked.
Our boss sent us an apology through email stating that it was a "mistake". We also received an email from our boss' boss, apologizing as well.
A meeting was held a few days later and our boss read us a 2 sentence apology from a sheet of paper, and continued on as if nothing had happened. Showed no remorse for anyone.
Can anything be done, LEGALLY? Possibly..
CLIFF NOTES:
-Boss sends email that was supposed to contain a "form" for employees to fill out
-Email actually contains a document with EVERY employees pay rate
-Every employee signed form before taking the job stating that pay rates are not allowed to be discussed, and action would be taken if caught.
-Employees get pissed off, discover they may have been getting $%#@ over.
-Boss apologizes, apology seems insincere. Causes drama within the organization.
