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Can we terminate an employee who has been discussing how much he gets paid?

by 08/12/2010

Q. Our company has a confidentiality policy about employee wages. We recently learned that one of our employees has been violating this policy by disclosing his hourly pay rate to co-workers. Can we terminate this employee for violating our company policy?

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