i’ll start this off today by saying i work in hr (sorry), but i try to do what i can for employees and actually put the human part into my job. i also am us based for the story—
anyways, without going into detail as i’m sure some of our employees use reddit, today my boss (leader of global hr team) was complaining about an employee who shared his commission plan/payments with his coworkers. this employee works significantly more than others and his plan reflects that. he is also totally within his right to share that plan with others, and others then have the right to ask that their plans match.
our ceo does not like that. he demanded that my boss “fix this” as it is an “hr issue”, so my boss was saying how she would need to talk to the employee who shared his plan, and that “he should be an adult and not share his salary.” i was like ??? “hey boss, you legally cannot tell him that.”
both of my parents work in employment law, i’m in hr, i feel that i have a decent understanding of the topic. she insisted on googling it later because she didn’t believe me when i explained how all workers have a protected right to share pay as they have the right to decide to unionize. she couldn’t see how it helped the workers just because it doesn’t (financially) help the company. but i’d argue it DOES help the company since it reduces turnover, which as anyone in hr knows is the biggest expense. wouldn’t you rather give someone an extra $10k a year than pay $30k to a recruiting firm and lose billable hours???
i’m just at a loss as to how both she and the ceo dont get this. i think i talked her off the ledge with the employees involved by mentioning legal issues, but ugh