The topic of discussion was the fact that we're trying to encourage employees to share salaries with each other. They wanted to try to argue that it was against the "corporate culture" and "Attitude" and that it creates an "uncomfortable work environment" where people who might not be willing to share that information are feeling pressured to, and compared it to sharing medical information.
I tried to ask him specifically what about sharing salary information would upset someone and pressed him on his comparison to medical data
He ceded the point that the medical data comparison was silly but wouldn't ever give me a specific reason why someone would be uncomfortable
So then I kept trying to press him in order to ask what the company position was on an anonymous spreadsheet because then no one would be "uncomfortable" but he refused to give me an opinion
Literally almost a verbatim "no comment"
Send an email to your boss outlining what happened. Like, "Thanks for the emergency meeting today on January 13th 2023 at xxx time. Please advise if you want employees to discontinue talking about their salaries" or whatever so you have an actual paper trail. BCC yourself if it's a company email. This lets you prove intent if your fired as a retaliation for this, might get you some unemployment checks or something I dunno. Always nice to have contentious in-person meetings spelled out in writing.
I think the medical comparison is apt tbh