Rights & obligations · Before hiring · Art. 5

Pay transparency starts with the job ad.

Applicants have a right to know what a role pays before they negotiate. Employers may no longer base offers on what someone earned before.

Three rules

Applicants receive the starting pay or its range, based on objective, gender-neutral criteria — in the ad or before the interview.

Employers must not ask applicants about their current or previous pay.

Job titles and vacancy notices are gender-neutral, and the process is non-discriminatory.

A range you publish has to come from somewhere. Without grades and bands, every range is a one-off decision.