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Originally Posted by Thetagirl218
Does the law officaly outlaw unfair pay....If so how does someone find this out legally? I heard once that if you ask, talk to, or find out another employee's pay that it is illegal and you can be fired...
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It may be against a corporate policy, but it is NOT illegal. Government paid positions have to be publicly available. There is a state of Michigan web site where you can look up any employee's salary by their name. This includes universities, university hospitals, etc. Personally, I think when corporations take great measures and use threats to keep people from sharing salary information, they are usually trying to hide these kinds of unfair practices.
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Originally Posted by PhiGam
A company is going to pay somebody the lowest amount that they can. If women accept less money than men for the same job then so be it.
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If women are always offered less money everywhere, then they don't really have this option, do they? Obviously places that offer women a lower starting salary are discriminatory and would rather hire the man for the higher salary if they are going to have to pay that much. Additionally, it doesn't always happen at the time of the offer. It can happen with lower annual raises. Two people could start out the same but over time, if the woman only gets a 2% raise and the man gets 5%, things get out of whack very quickly. Then corporations institute policies like Thetagirl outlined, where they threaten to fire people who share salary info and the woman doesn't really know that she's being paid much less.