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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
#32Hate 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.
Not to be a cynic but sometimes it seems directives are enforced more than laws in the EU.
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#33The best part is companies being forbidden from asking how much you make. The rest is super light, just averages and ranges.
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#34Sometimes transparency can backfire and result in strict schedules of salaries that prevent government agencies from hiring the best talent. It also results in everyone being given standard pay and promotions being based on time in the team, instead of paying for performance. These behaviors make it easier for managers to avoid difficult conversations but also make public agencies perform poorly.
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#35How will this work with VC-backed startup where a large chunk of compensation is options of unknown value?
it is not of unknown value. in fact, they are valued as you have to pay taxes from it
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#36At least in Norway it's already public what everyone makes. I can look up the taxable salary information about anyone (so salary after deductions but it's probably ok close). Also, even without that, salary of public employees is part of the information you can request to view. I feel discussing salaries is quite common here. At work someone made a spreadsheet everyone fills their salary into if they want, experience…
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?
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Re: Europe to End "Salary Secrecy": Employee Salaries to Become Public by 2026
#37How 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.
I read the article. Maybe instead of downvoting you should engage in a meaningful discussion.
You should also know that any information can be used to triangulate other information.
That’s exactly why people are focused on data privacy.
I’m also not outraged. I just think it’s a perfect example of cognitive dissonance.
Privacy is good in one case. The same privacy is bad in another case. Objectively they’re the same.
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#38Title reads like there will be public access to all employees' salaris as of 2026. Obviously not quite the case. > {...} Given that the main objective of the measure is to reduce salary inequality, companies will have to make salaries or salary ranges for each position public. In addition, they will have to share with their employees the criteria used to set these remunerations. They will also have to provide informa…
Given that it is Europe, I'd be far more interested in their breakdown by race and origin. That won't paint as nice a picture though.
Re: Europe to End "Salary Secrecy": Employee Salaries to Become Public by 2026
#39Title reads like there will be public access to all employees' salaris as of 2026. Obviously not quite the case. > {...} Given that the main objective of the measure is to reduce salary inequality, companies will have to make salaries or salary ranges for each position public. In addition, they will have to share with their employees the criteria used to set these remunerations. They will also have to provide informa…
Wonder how this will work for remote companies. Will the post a super large band for positions ranging across Europe? Or will it geographically defined?
Re: Europe to End "Salary Secrecy": Employee Salaries to Become Public by 2026
#40Salary ranges . Plenty of states in the US already have this law.
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