Supervisor sent out email to everyone with the title of it being “CONFIDENTIAL” and all that was attached was our pay and pay increase for the year (It was bad ya’ll).
My understanding is that it’s illegal to try to prevent employees from speaking about pay. Marking as confidential sure does imply you’ll get in trouble for sharing it, but not sure if it’s enough of a problem that I should raise it with HR.
Anyone with more experience in the matter have an opinion?
EDIT: I guess some important context is this was added onto some other things they did. Like straight up saying we can’t verbally, and then heavy implication in a team meeting that we shouldn’t talk to each other about it and should bring it up to our supervisors. Of course neither of those were recorded.
I was just curious if this was a big enough deal for them to get a reminder that they can’t do that nonsense. Sounds like it’s not. But I also have OCPD so my sense of rule following is very extreme, and why I decided I should check in with ya’ll before I do anything.
You probably have limited practical ways to do something about it (aside from freely talking to your coworkers, reporting to the NLRB if you’re in the US, and hoping they care), and anything you do does risk retaliation (illegal, but you need to understand that being right doesn’t mean people follow the law, or that the law will be enforced effectively).
Obviously you should be looking for a less shitty job regardless.
(The extra context is important - without it it would be no big deal. In Germany, sending your comp info by email would be illegal because privacy, and the envelope would definitely be labeled confidential).