[nickcarraway]

That’s illegal in my state. Companies can’t mandate salary privacy.

[KarlInOhio]

It probably depends on the source of information. If other employees voluntarily told her their salary then she can't be held responsible even if she tells the whole world. On the other hand, if she has (proper or not) access to the company's payroll list through the payroll files or some project cost estimate she could be in trouble for getting it and more for releasing it.

In my first full time job, the company had the attitude that everyone could be a project manager and thus needed salary information on everyone that could be working on a project including the local office boss. Every job since then nas had the traditional salary secrecy.

[Bshaw]

Back in the day, corporate Human Resources would send the “CONFIDENTIAL” annual salary increases to the branch manager where I worked.

Confidential as in sittrin on the fax machine in the printer room addressed to the person who was actually in the office the least.

We had great fun with that!