Craig Franklin, 05/02/2012 10:17:
The legal safeguards seem to be in place in France (disclosure of highest salaries) to ensure that noone is paid above what the organisation can and should afford, so why the need for total transparency?Let me turn that one around, and ask, what is the justification for /not /having total transparency? I would think that starting with 100% transparency and then selectively blocking out pieces of information only after due consideration is the way to go, especially if the primary source of funding is donations being made by the general public. If you start from the other position, and only share information if you are legally required to or if it paints you in a favourable light, well, that's not really /meaningful /transparency in my book.
Total transparency can be meaningless too. You can get (very close to) total transparency with a system like Delphine's, but you force people to work and think more to get the specific information. This is not an exercise in masochism, rather a way to focus on the way the system works (or not): you are forced to study and understand it before you get the specific piece of information. If the criteria to decide wages aren't clear or don't exist, then /this/ is something one can rightfully complain about.
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