Wage Surveys

They're still coming in at a regular clip.

Later today, Jeff Massie will give us the totals, and allow me to say we now have a pretty good number. ...

But the numbers could be better. So again. If you haven't filled one out, please do so now. We begin tabulating surveys next week and we will put the numbers up here, and on the website.

If you don't think this is important, consider that studios often make a regular habit of discouraging employees from broadcasting wage information. And Disney used to have a prohibition about revealing wage info written into personal service contracts, despite the following:

Section 232 of the State of California Labor Code 232. No employer may do any of the following:

(a) Require, as a condition of employment, that an employee refrain from disclosing the amount of his or her wages.

(b) Require an employee to sign a waiver or other document that purports to deny the employee the right to disclose the amount of his or her wages.

(c) Discharge, formally discipline, or otherwise discriminate against an employee who discloses the amount of his or her wages.

Section 232.5: No employer may do any of the following:

(a) Require, as a condition of employment, that an employee refrain from disclosing information about the employer's working conditions.

(b) Require an employee to sign a waiver or other document that purports to deny the employee the right to disclose information about the employer's working conditions.

(c) Discharge, formally discipline, or otherwise discriminate against an employee who discloses information about the employer's working conditions.

(d) This section is not intended to permit an employee to disclose proprietary information, trade secret information, or information that is otherwise subject to a legal privilege without the consent of his or her employer.

In the past, I have taken grief for disclosing working conditions. And I have been in arguments with managers who insisted they had the right to prohibit employees from sharing wage info. (Laws didn't seem to mean much to them. Go figure.)

If you haven't yet scribbled your pay and job classification on a survey, please take the three minutes the task requires and do it now. If nothing else, you'll be striking a blow for freedom and transparency. Wages are NOT proprietary information.