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National Labor Relations Board, says - you can

Posted: Dec 09, 2014

discuss your pay in public as much as you would like. It is the law. It does not matter if you have signed a nondisclosure statement on salary as that is not legal. If you are fired for talking about your salary you have legal grounds for compensation.

Of course distributing copyrighted material is illegal, but you can talk about your work concerns and salary in public. It is the law no matter what a company tells you.

You do not have to be part of a union. You have rights as an employee and an American citizen and this is one of them.

Are there any laws about not knowing what you are making sm - acuteMLS

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on any given day until AFTER your work is turned over to the client and QA'd?

I've been looking and I haven't been able to find it, but there HAS to be some law against this (having us work without a rate before we begin the work).

I can't figure out the pay grid. How do I know what I'm going to make?

I can't SEE the pay grid - sm

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with its microscopic font and dark green color. AND I SUPPOSEDLY HAVE PERFECT 20/20 VISION. Is this just another ploy to keep us in the dark?

Go to Enrich - AnotherAnon

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There is a plain version (not colored) in PDF format, which you can down and enlarge so you can read it : )

You will find it under NTS Links, Payment Compensation Plan, Documents.

Thank you so very, very much!!! - I had no idea.

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:-)

Your welcome : ) nm - AnotherAnon

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I'm not upholding the way they are doing this, but they - justpassingthrough

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do guarantee us minimum wage.

Yeah, they HAVE to. - sm

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That's why it's called MINIMUM wage. It's the law.

Yes, I'm fully aware that it's the law. I was just - justpassingthrough

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responding to the comment about them not telling us how much we're making. It's like any other production-based job. They pay you minimum wage. What you make above and beyond minimum wage is usually based on how hard you want to work. Once again, I am not upholding the way they are doing this, just simply stating it like it is.

this is a SKILLED job, we were forced into production-based - migrant workers make more than nuance employees

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let me rephrase - migrant workers make more than - nuance MTs

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The techie side and everybody else are still warm and fuzzy in their positions.

NONE of us are forced into production-based - justpassingthrough

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jobs. I choose to stay for now. I am free, as we all are, to leave at any time. Nuance is not holding a gun to my head (or anyone else's) and making me stay. I stay because I need the job. Jobs don't necessarily come easy these days. The last transcription job I interviewed for paid 6.6 CPL for straight typing and around 3 for editing. That's even less than Nuance pays. Okay, I'm done now.

Sure it is a skilled job but the value of that skill-sm - anon

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The value of that skill to those who need it is declining. There are skills involved in all jobs and the skills needed for editing/transcription is not valued highly. One, they can obtain that skill from a cheaper labor source (offshoring) or they can replace the people with the skills but requiring the physicians to do the work. It simply does not matter how many years we have worked to hone our skills, they are no longer wanted/appreciated enough to pay decently for.

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