So I'm sitting here next to my SVP brother for a fin tech banking SaaS firm, on his headset in a meeting. Family together after Holiday.
They are talking about a payroll company for which they consult, and he just informs then that he's “supposed to discourage them talking about wages” then says there I've done that, and shuts up.
That means it's either in the policy manual or in the customer's contact. That's CLEARLY NRLB violation on the former, or torturous interference with contractual obligations (like legal compliance to the government) on the latter.
All employers are fuckers.