Can a Confidentiality Agreement include that the employee cannot discuss with another Terms & Conditions?
Can a Confidentiality Agreement include - 'Your terms of employment with the Company constititutes confidentail information between each individual employee and the Company. The Company will therefore treat is as a disciplininary matter is you discuss your terms and conditions of employment with other employees. This is intended to protect employees privacy'
In the case above Terms and Conditions include Pay, Holiday Entitlements, etc.,
I dont believe that it is illeegal
I have heard of people being fired for discussing their pay.
yes. they do not want you talking about it with other employees because the might not have given the same things to them. you might be making more money / less money and if you talk about it, it will make them mad that they / you do not rate the higher pay or the best benifits
Ive heard of it before. Generally done by companies who have something to hide I would imagine. Not sure how legal it is.
Answer:
sure
Yes. This is legal. It is quite common, actually. You can either agree to enter into such a contract or if this is of great offense, you can look elsewhere for employment.
Yep. It is usually standard, lets say you make 50K a year, and the guy next to you makes 55K a year and you have the same education, but he makes more because he negotiated that salary. Wouldn't you be pissed to find out he gets paid more? You might slow down your productivity, or feel resentment towards you co-worker. Whatever, they don't want that tension, so if nobody knows, everything runs smoother.
Not sure here - what happens if two or more employees agree in mutual conversation to waive their rights to privacy in respect of their conversations with one another. Surely then the clause that you outline becomes null and void?
Arch-conservative that I normally am, there is a lot to be said for collective bargaining...
Yep, its done all the time.
Yes, that's perfectly legal. Although I'd remove the bit about 'This is intended to protect employees privacy' as it's pretty unlikely that's the real reason, and it could cause problems if there was a breach.
