Jim Henderson wrote:
> companies strongly discourage employees from even talking about their 
> salaries with their peers.

Yeah, but that's not for the good of the employees. :-)

> But my point is that I don't believe company A could call up the HR 
> department at company B and say "John Doe has told us his salary is 
> $74,000 a year - can you confirm this?"

Used to be OK. I answered a number of calls like this in my first job. I 
wouldn't be surprised if laws passed since then, not the least of which 
were due to ...

> - for one thing, that could open John up to some sort of retribution from his
current employer for looking 
> for a new job 

Sure, and retribution against the employer for giving a bad 
recommendation or lying about the salary, which is more what I think 
caused the changes.

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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