UK. Work in a small sales team, with shared access to a drive full of files.
Manager has been doing some budgets and such to hire new staff for the upcoming busy season. Manager does said budgeting in a shared document (which the whole team has access to) instead of their own private limited access documents. In this data is how much each member of the team earns per hour, which is vastly between the top and bottom.
Colleague spots this and points this out to myself and another staff member on the team. They get written up and face disciplinary action for sharing “personal data”.
Should this colleague be hard done by as the manager shouldn't have put this information on a shared sheet? My view is that the manager should be facing the disciplinary, not the colleague who pointed it out.