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Employee Wage TransparencyTHE BENEFITS OF MAKING PAY PUBLIC
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Introduction
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The norm
$$$$ Pay Rates $$$$
$100,00 per year
$20 per hour
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Secrecy
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Secrecy Protections
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Can an employer enforce secrecy?
Confidentiality agreement
California Labor Code section 232: No employer may do any of the following: (a) Require, as a condition of employment, that an employee refrain from disclosing the amount of his or her wages; (b) Require an employee to sign a waiver or other document that purports to deny the employee the right to disclose the amount of his or her wages; (c) Discharge, formally discipline, or otherwise discriminate against an employee who discloses the amount of his or her wages.
NLRB: An employer cannot lawfully prohibit employees from discussing matters such as their pay raises, rates of pay, and perceived inequities.
Websites:◦ glassdoor.com◦ salary.com◦ PayScale.com
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Is there a privacy right in one’s salary?
Wage information “is normally considered private”◦ Painting Indus. of Haw. Mkt. Recovery Fund v. U.S. Dep't of the Air Force, 26 F.3d 1479 (9th Cir. 1994)
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Public employment
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Not in the public sphere “[A]n individual’s expectation of privacy in a salary earned in public employment is significantly less than the privacy expectation regarding income earned in the private sector.”
◦ Int’l Fed’n of Prof'l & Technical Eng'rs, Local 21, AFL-CIO v. Superior Court, 165 P.3d 488 (Cal. 2007)
“Public access to specific salary information gives direct insight into the operations of the public body by enabling scrutiny of the wages paid for particular job titles.”
◦ Prof'l Firefighters of N.H. v. Local Gov't Ctr., 159 N.H. 699, 709, 992 A.2d 582, 591 (2010)
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Go to transparentcalifornia.com Enter Edmund Brown:
Regular pay Overtime pay Other pay TotalbenefitsTotal pay &benefits
$159,553.80 $0.00 $0.00 $16,588.60 $176,142.40
$159,480.75 $0.00 $0.00 Not provided $159,480.75
$173,856.14 $0.00 $0.00 Not provided $173,856.14
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Go to transparentcalifornia.com Enter Eric Garcetti:
Job title Regular pay Overtime pay Other pay TotalbenefitsTotal pay &benefits
MayorLos Angeles, 2013
$194,164.00 $0.00 $0.00 $13,110.00 $207,274.00
Council Member
Los Angeles, 2012
$162,440.98 $0.00 $0.00 $10,597.00 $173,037.98
Council Member
Los Angeles, 2011
$162,441.00 $0.00 $90.00 $10,608.00 $173,139.00
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Go to transparentcalifornia.com Enter Tani G Cantil-Sakauye, Chief Justice:
Regular pay: $231,945.36
Overtime pay: $0.00
Other pay: $0.00
Total pay: $231,945.36
Total benefits: $17,395.56
Total pay & benefits: $249,340.92
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Go to transparentcalifornia.com Enter Head Coach:
Name Job title Regular pay Overtime pay Other pay Totalbenefits Total pay &benefits
STEPHEN TODD ALFORD INTERCOL ATH HEAD COACH EX
University of California, 2013
$200,000.00 $0.00 $2,439,609.00 Not provided $2,639,609.00
JEFF TEDFORD HEAD COACH 5University of California, 2013
$0.00 $0.00 $2,442,860.00 Not provided $2,442,860.00
JAMES LAWRENCE MORA INTERCOL ATH HEAD COACH EX
University of California, 2013
$300,000.00 $0.00 $2,110,128.00 Not provided $2,410,128.00
DANIEL DYKES HEAD COACH 5University of California, 2013
$246,031.00 $0.00 $2,124,708.00 Not provided $2,370,739.00
BENJAMIN CLARK HOWLAND
INTERCOL ATH HEAD COACH EX
University of California, 2013
$300,000.00 $0.00 $2,015,078.00 Not provided $2,315,078.00
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Private employment
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Buffer Social media tool
Salary formula◦ Salary = job type * seniority * experience + location
Published salaries
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SumAll Data, metrics and analytics for users of social media
Salaries set employee by employee within a range
Pay revealed to everyone else at the company
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Whole Foods Food seller
Employees may look up everyone’s salary and bonus from the previous year
“If you accomplish what this person has accomplished, I’ll pay you that, too.”◦ CEO John Mackey
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Types of transparency
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Process transparency How salaries are set
Range of salaries per position
Requirements for getting a raise
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Full-salary transparency Exactly how much everyone at the organization earns
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Pluses and minuses
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AdvantagesTrust
Recruiting
Reduce bias Lily Ledbetter did not know for 20 years that she was earning less
Eliminate gossip
“Transparency builds fairness, fairness drives engagement, engagement drives business success.” Mark A. Szypko, IBM Smarter Workforce Solutions
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DisadvantagesMakes lower paid workers feel worse
Negative effect on job performance
Encourages cheating
Apples to oranges comparisons
Drives up executive compensation
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Implementation
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Job descriptions Qualifications
Essential functions
Physical activity
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Salary surveys
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Justifications
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Intranet v. Internet
