Intensifying the class struggle, employers who can fire you for having an open discussion about salary, sell your salary to Equifax. Future employers can pull this information up and have the upper hand in negotiation.
You can view a copy of your report here:
https://employees.theworknumber.com/
It will contain:
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Previous annual salary
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Previous paycheck amounts
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Previous addresses
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Who has accessed the report in the past 24 months
Do this but backwards, make it so employees can see exactly what employers are spending the company's money on but employers don't get to perv on employee salaries
Honestly shit like this makes me wonder if you could ever do a join lawsuit with thousands of individuals claiming that Equifax cost them millions in wages the same way businesses can sue regarding impacts on profit from damages. Would never work cuss we live in hellworld, but would still enjoy seeing such a thing tried out.
a few years ago equifax had a data breach giving out all this personal info/ssn for about 150 million people. they settled and if everyone filed a claim you might have gotten about a one dollar check. OR the ftc would let you use their more credit monitoring service for free for a few years. i'm not even joking
https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2019/07/equifax-data-breach-pick-free-credit-monitoring
courts only work to protect business profits. if a class action ever happened workers might get a 57 cent check while the company gets a slap on the wrist and a lawyer gets 8 figures.
I was in a settlement regarding labor violations and got a check for like 50 dollars 3 years after I quit. I was cheated out of at least a few thousand dollars.. now times that by easily 2000 other employees. fuck the corrupt courts.
Greatest theft in the US is wage theft and capitalists are the ones projecting out to workers being lazy and parasitic to the system
Yep, I swear I've been in every single data leak. My shit is worthless luckily
Your name, address, and birthdate aren't worthless comrade, they represent basic vital parts of your identity as well as where you call home or where you're from.
It's worth more than a capitalist could ever quantify in dollars, and shouldn't be stored as mere records in a spreadsheet to sell to other capitalists to target you with their worthless products, let alone be leaked with other sensitive government IDs to god knows where because of their lack of care.
i hate this shit. absolutely no privacy protections. gathering and selling data people gave no consent on sharing. then these assholes get data breached every few years and your personal info is scattered everywhere.
I just love that my address and address history is pretty much public knowledge without my consent.
In bad country there's... look, this is worse than anything :some-controversy: gets accused of when it comes to social credit scores and abuse of personal data, so I'm just mad as hell.
While privacy would be ideal, and a private companies sharing such information in class solidarity is disastrous there is a counterpoint to consider.
Norway allows everyone to see anyone's salary. Keeping salaries private is a tactic by the capitalist class to suppress pay and this information imbalance is worsened if employers have access to the information and employees don't.
So just opening the hatch on all salaries at least levels the informational playing field and gives employees some power to negotiate higher pay and expose discriminatory pay practices. Maybe being able to see the salaries of bosses might instill some class consciousness but that might be optimistic.
I hate to say this but The Work Number service has been around for about the last 20 years, at least. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_Number | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equifax_Workforce_Solutions
I will say seeing Equifax being the owners of that site just makes me :michael-laugh: for all the funnies Equifax will generate with their shitty security.
so i went to log in, put in my employer and nothing came up. even tried past employers. so i guess im clear? im sure they dont make this easy. i have ID alert after getting robbed at gunpoint and having my info used to try and sign up for credit cards and it will tell me about a change in equifax but nothing beyond that.
No need to lie. If they ask "that's proprietary information that I'm not allowed to disclose, I wouldn't want to get in trouble with my current employer"
I would be upset about this if I werent 100% certain I'm leaving the country in the next 3 years. This is some fucking bullshit
