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.
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.
