[AmericanChopper]

All existing remuneration levelling mechanisms (such as salary bands) contribute towards the creation of two classes of workers, and pay transparency laws do the same. You end up with people who are happy to be in their salary band, and people who become contractors.

Every place I’ve worked for the past 10 years has had salary bands, and I’ve always been paid far more than the highest band offered. Because I’ve never been an employee, it’s simply never applied to me. I don’t get counted in the diversity statistics either, which is also great.

I guess transparency regulations take the feeling of pressure off those who aren’t competent negotiators, but if the goal is to decrease inequalities, they won’t accomplish that.