Kesian wanna tunjuk macho backfire now come here rant.

You have a right not to show your payslip. They also have the right not to offer you a role.

If you are that good, they will bend over backwards to hire you. If you get stunted because of a payslip, you are not that good of a talent.

Most likely is to use to look at what to offer the person. Not necessarily a bargaining chip, but in MNCs, anything above X% will have to be approved by higher authority, thus they will need the payslip to back it up, especially if someone uses bonus to form part of their new salary requirements.

Since when HR cannot offer ad hoc increment?

Still got people seriously believe in this myth.

Bargaining chip would indicate candidate have an expectation and one's payslip will be used to suppress that. It can happen but I always tell people to stand their ground.

Keep telling "use market" is pointless, market data at P50 is average, not really comprehensive and strips away one's "achievements and contributions".

If P50 is at 8k, candidate request it at 12k it makes no sense to pay market nor would it be easy to justify why the role commands a candidate 50% above market. If he is already earning 10k, a 2k increment seems far more palatable.

I'm not sure the intention of that HR, but current pay is only one factor is the overall comp negotiation.

3 mths is just to see if your pay is consistent. I am heading rewards. Plenty of fella pull that "I get 8 months bonus so I want my pay to be xyz", thus kantoi when get asked for payslip with bonus.

Don't lie, just state what is the pay you think is fair and stick to it.

Clearly you are not a business need then.

Yes, they clearly decided you were not their need, shitty HR SOP aside.