Company refuses to disclose how much more the CEO earns than you
An employee at a publicly listed company demands access to the wage gap ratio between executive pay and the lowest-paid workers, as legally required by corporate transparency regulations.
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The Situation
What They Said
“Under applicable corporate transparency regulations, this company is legally required to disclose the pay ratio between the highest-paid executive and the lowest-paid employee in its annual remuneration report. I am requesting access to that report.”
You work as a retail floor employee earning close to the minimum wage. You read in the news that your company's CEO earned a very high salary last year — many times your annual salary. When you raise this with your HR manager and ask to see the formal wage gap disclosure, they tell you salary information is private and you have no right to it.
The Fallacy
Executive Salaries Are Private Business Information
HR is treating executive remuneration as confidential corporate information. But corporate transparency regulations changed this for publicly listed companies: they are legally required to disclose the wage gap ratio between their highest-paid executives and their lowest-paid employees in their annual remuneration report. This is a public disclosure obligation, not internal information. The purpose is transparency and accountability on wage inequality.
What the Law Says
Your Legal Foundation
Ley Federal del Trabajo
art. 132 de la Ley Federal del Trabajo — Employer Obligations
“Comply with the provisions of the labor standards applicable to their companies or establishments;”
The company must comply with all applicable labor laws, including any legal requirement to disclose pay ratios. If such a disclosure is mandated by law, the company cannot refuse on grounds of privacy.
What Scripture Says
God's Word on This
James 5:4 ()
“Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.”
God takes note of wage injustice. Laws requiring transparency on pay gaps exist precisely because the gap between the highest and lowest paid is a moral issue, not just a financial one.
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You Know the Law — But Do You Know What to Say?
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