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Europe to End "Salary Secrecy": Employee Salaries to Become Public by 2026

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Re: Europe to End "Salary Secrecy": Employee Salaries to Become Public by 2026

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post #18

How is this compatible with EUs relentless focus on privacy? What if I don’t want my colleagues or even people outside of my company to know how much I earn?

Maybe read TFA before jumping to outraged conclusions. You must publicize salary ranges and averages per function or function group.

Re: Europe to End "Salary Secrecy": Employee Salaries to Become Public by 2026

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post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Assuming I was Norwegian and for some reason was getting paid way more than my coworkers, could I format my deductions so that it looked like I was paid on par with them, but be able to recover most of the money later?

why would you try to do that?

So you pay less income tax?

Every tax avoid-er tries to find deductions from nothing.

Re: Europe to End "Salary Secrecy": Employee Salaries to Become Public by 2026

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Hate to be pedantic but it's European Union or European Parliament, not Europe. And it's a directive, not a law.

Also, "Employees Will Know How Much Their Colleagues Earn" is a false claim as this only reports salary ranges for the function and the average salary.

2026 is only for the Spanish implementation of this directive. And for Spain, it's only large companies that need to provide it by then.

Re: Europe to End "Salary Secrecy": Employee Salaries to Become Public by 2026

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Clickbait. Google 'Directive 2023/970' for many better other articles A very amateur looking site too. Domain registered in 2023. Few Google references to the name. Can't handle HN load. The "About Us" contains a link to https://7bn.org/team , which gives a Cloudflare error and https://7bn.org returns a web hosting "Default Web Site Page" And 50 upvotes while the site isn't even loading? Hilarious

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Re: Europe to End "Salary Secrecy": Employee Salaries to Become Public by 2026

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post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Assuming I was Norwegian and for some reason was getting paid way more than my coworkers, could I format my deductions so that it looked like I was paid on par with them, but be able to recover most of the money later?

why would you try to do that?

To avoid the social consequences amongst your peers? Perhaps that's not an issue in Norway, but it's an issue in the US.

I don't want my coworkers to know how much I make because if I'm making substantially more or less than them, it will affect how they perceive and interact with me.

Re: Europe to End "Salary Secrecy": Employee Salaries to Become Public by 2026

#29
post #3

Salary ranges . Plenty of states in the US already have this law.

This would apply to ~200M workers in the EU. Seems like a big deal, even if a handful of states in the US have similar policy. The entire US labor force only has ~164M workers. Other US states will catch up, eventually. https://www.americanprogress.org/article/quick-facts-about-s... (Texas and Florida notably do not, and likely won't for some time due to state politics; they are the second [30M] and third [22M] state…

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