The Commission has a proposal to equalize the pay of women and men

The European Commission on Thursday presented a proposal on pay transparency, which aims to ensure that women and men in the European Union receive equal pay for equal work. The European Commission's proposal sets out remuneration transparency measures, such as information on remuneration for jobseekers, the right to know the level of remuneration of workers who perform the same work, as well as the reporting obligations of large companies on the gender pay gap. The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said in this connection that transparency was needed to achieve equal pay. "Women need to know if they are being treated fairly by their employers. If they are not, they must be able to fight and get what they are entitled to," she said in a media report. According to the European Commission, the new proposal will end the gender bias in remuneration and address the problem that the EU wants to address since the adoption of the Treaty of Rome in 1957. The legislative proposal aims to ensure the transparency of the remuneration of workers and employers and to improve access to justice for victims of pay discrimination. In practice, this means that employers must already provide information on the starting salary in the vacancy notice. Employers with at least 250 employees must disclose information on the gender pay gap in their organization. And workers who have suffered discrimination in the gender pay gap can be compensated, including the recovery of bonuses and related bonuses, and it will be up to the employer to prove that there has been no discrimination.