manager disclosing salary information infront of colleague.

phild145

I agree with Emmzi.

If it is your own Team Leader then that could be of benefit to you. He may think you are worth far more money then you are getting and should therefore get a bigger rise then some of the others.

If it had been someone from another department or someone that is on your level etc then you would have cause to complain

Phil

Flyboy152

tizerbelle wrote: »

OMG! Are you for real? Your salary is not purely between you and HR. It is part of the operating costs of the business and will have to be accounted for in corporate / divisional / departmental and team budgets. No company in the world would be able to operate effectively if the only people who knew what employees were being paid are the employee and the HR department.

Mine works perfectly well on that basis. With the exception of my accounts manager, my personnel manager and me, no one knows what anyone else is earning.

Your salary is a matter between you and the "company" and the "company" means those employees that are involved in payroll matters - this doesn't just mean the employees that operate payroll but those that are involved in all aspects of pay including determining pay awards, reviewing performance, managing team budgets etc etc.

The only people who need to know are the ones I have mentioned above. If there is any reason why I have decided that salaries are not disclosed to others, that is a matter for myself and the employee, no one else. We have an unwritten rule; don't ask, don't tell. The same is for most other companies (well, those who hold professional integrity to higher standard).

It is not illegal nor a breach of data protection for YOUR manager and YOUR team leader to know your salary as required in the course of their duties. It's not even illegal nor a breach of data protection for other managers or team leaders or employees to know your salary if again it is needed to conduct their roles.

I think you misunderstand the DPA, I suggest you give it another read. Disclosure of data is conducted on a need to now basis.

If your manager and/or team leader had decided to shout your salary level out in the middle of the office in front of your colleagues that would be a breach of data protection but for gawds sake you were in a pay review meeting - of course your salary is going to be discussed. You can't just talk percentages, a percentage of an unqualified amount means nothing.

It depends on the nature of the meeting, the agreed convention regarding disclosure and whose decision it was to make the award. If the OP felt that none of this was the business of the other employee, then a breach might have deemed to have occurred.