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