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Subject:Re: Working Wages From:Steve Arrants <stephena -at- COMPBEAR -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 29 Jun 1998 05:58:00 -0700
Is stating a rate blackening a person/firm's good name? I don't think so.
I doubt that the courts would think so. Firms and the like may want to keep
pay rates secret (how many of us are told that compensation is a prvate
matter between "you and the employer"?).
How else are we to know what the going rates are in a particular area?
steve arrants
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Wise <danwise -at- MINDSPRING -dot- COM>
To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU <TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU>
Date: Sunday, June 28, 1998 10:31 PM
Subject: Re: Working Wages
>>I agree with Bruce that we need to campaign to keep rates up. We should
be
>careful, though, about broadcasting the names of low-paying employers.
>There are serious legal ramifications involved in blackening a
person/firm's
>good name. We have discussed this issue on the list in the past if I
>remember rightly. The archives probably are rich with information on the
>subject.
>>
>>Dan Wise
>>danwise -at- mindspring -dot- com
