pay secrecy
Silence purchase price
Pay secrecy is the practice of keeping employee compensation confidential, whether through company policy, cultural pressure, or explicit prohibition on discussing wages.
Employers often discourage salary discussions to maintain negotiating advantage and prevent internal conflict: The company's pay secrecy policy made it impossible to know if women were being paid fairly.
Critics argue that pay secrecy enables discrimination and suppresses wages.
- confidentialMeant to stay secret
- hushAbsence of sound
- hush moneyPayment to ensure secrecy
- wagesPayment for work
- salaryFixed periodic employment payment
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- wageswage, salary, paycheck, income, earnings
- workplace privacyprivacy policies, privacy policy, personnel files, confidentiality, personal data
pay secrecypay equity
Equal pay for equal work
wage equality · worker empowerment · collective bargaining · pay fairness
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