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Aug27

Asking Coworkers about their salary

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An employee at our company is constantly badgering coworkers, questioning them on their salary. They don’t like to reply, but she keeps hammering away. Can anything be done to stop this annoying behavior?

The manager or supervisor should simply tell the employee to stop. The majority of companies have rules that employees will not discuss private information, including salary.

In some situations, for example, when employees are trying to form a union, if an individual employee wants to share his or her salary information with another person, they can. But there is no protection for an employee who is constantly badgering others, for any reason.

Even if there was no rule against salary discussions, this behavior has become offensive and uncomfortable for coworkers. This is a performanc eissue — the employee needs to stop, or be disciplined or terminated. Once she is given that choice, she will probably quit bothering her coworkers.

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