Wage discussion

natoea24968205

I am trying to gather information I am soon to be in a discussion with my wage at work and wanted to know if my boss can discuss my wage with anyone else, as I believe it's a private conversation and would fall under data Protection.

Penguin_

I guess it depends who they discuss it with.

tizerbelle

They can discuss your wage with their line managers, senior managers, company owners, HR team, finance team, payroll team etc.  Pretty much anyone that they reasonably could be expected to discuss it with to address whatever issue you have.

What they should not do though is discuss it with your peers or their mate Fred who works in the next office over just as a bit of gossip over a brew.  

Brie

tizerbelle said:

They can discuss your wage with their line managers, senior managers, company owners, HR team, finance team, payroll team etc.  Pretty much anyone that they reasonably could be expected to discuss it with to address whatever issue you have.

What they should not do though is discuss it with your peers or their mate Fred who works in the next office over just as a bit of gossip over a brew.  

They shouldn't but it does happen fairly frequently in my opinion.  And Fred tells someone, who tells someone and next thing you know Bob who sits next to you is complaining that you get paid tuppence a week more than he does.

There used to be an expectation that colleagues never discussed their salaries.  So you wouldn't tell Bob and Bob wouldn't tell you.  And it always came across as a firing squad offence but more recently it's been "suggested" that things aren't discussed.  I believe this is because so many people are paid within a range of salaries and so everyone has a pretty good idea what others are being paid.  No data protection needed in that sense.  

DullGreyGuy

natoea24968205 said:

I am trying to gather information I am soon to be in a discussion with my wage at work and wanted to know if my boss can discuss my wage with anyone else, as I believe it's a private conversation and would fall under data Protection.

It depends if there is a legitimate business need for them to... clearly if they want to increase it then they are going to have to talk to their boss, HR, Payroll, Finance etc. Similarly if they are going to delegate doing the first draft of next years budget or are going to ask you to work on a project which needs to be fully costed then others will know. 

They shouldn't be sat in the common room chatting to all and sundry about it but there will be a substantial number in a company who'll know and I wouldn't be too worried about it. As a project person I know the salaries of lots of people as I need them to budget the project and do the business case.