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.
Marking it as confidential in an email is not them telling you that you can’t share your own info. It’s warning you that the info inside the email may be something you don’t want to open when presenting etc.
A lot of companies will try to discourage you from talking about your pay. Unless they actually take action against you (i.e. teprimand/firing) there isn’t anything that you could bring to HR or a court.
Your reaction seems extreme for what would be typical corporate policy (i.e. confidential on an email like that).