Can an employer make my payment rate public to all within the company without my specific permission to do so?
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Can an employer make my payment rate public to all within the company without my specific permission to do so?
I am categorized as a temporary part time employee after recently being a 1099 contractor for a same company. My employer has “posted” my payment rate and all my time sheets to an online server that is unrestricted to all employees and downloads all files to all work and personal computers. I am the only one that this has happened to. Obviously a there’s a breech of trust but is it illegal?
Asked on July 12, 2012 under Employment Labor Law, Tennessee
Answers:
M.D., Member, California and New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 11 years ago | Contributor
In most employment relationships, an employer can set the terms and conditions of employment as it sees fit. So unless posting your payrate in this way violates company policy, an employment contract, union agreement, etc. or constitutes some form of actionable discrimination, your employer is within its legal rights to take this action. In other words, based on the facts presented, while your employer's action is highly unprofessional it does unfortunately appear to be legal.
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