21 April

There’s a trend in job ads to no longer advertise a salary. And for people even inside an organisation to have no idea what other people inside the organisation are paid. Ask HR people and senior managers and they’ll give you some rubbish about privacy. (There is no privacy issue.) What it actually is, is wage suppression. One of the easiest ways to keep wages down is to not let people compare what they’re paid, with what other people are paid. Australia even allows secrecy clauses in employment contracts, to force employees to not disclose their salary. Those were already banned in the US and UK, because they were seen as disempowering employees.