No more beating around the bush about salaries. Companies will have to be upfront about pay before the interview

Job seekers should no longer have to go into their first interview this year without knowing what to expect. Employers will be required to disclose the salary range they are offering in advance, and questions about salary levels at previous jobs will be a thing of the past. This change will be brought about by the European Directive on Pay Transparency, which will fundamentally transform the rules governing recruitment and the monitoring of pay gaps.

Questions about income in previous employment will also be taboo for businesses. This will be ensured by the EU Directive on pay transparency, which will require an amendment to the Labour Code. The Labour Code already enshrines the principle of equality in Section 110. However, remuneration will now have to be transparent.

The Ministry of Labour has not yet published a specific draft of the legal regulation. However, the transposition period is set so that Member States are required to incorporate these rules into national legislation by 7 June.

The Directive requires businesses to introduce pay structures that ensure equal pay for the same work or work of equal value. Companies must establish clear, objective, and gender-neutral criteria for job evaluation. This will also allow for comparison of job values across different positions within the organization. Across the company, these data will be obtained by the monitoring body. Employees will then receive information only about their individual wage and the average wage for the category performing the same work or work of equal value.

"If the employer operates within holding structures, the said rules will also apply when assessing whether employees are in a comparable situation. In such a case, individual businesses within the same holding may also be compared," pointed out at the discussion breakfast Markéta Flanderková, partner of the law firm Portos.

From the website ekonomickydenik.cz