At the company party, Tobias finds out that his colleague earns 17,000 euros more. Claudia does the same work as her male colleagues, but has a different title. Using tricky practical scenarios, we show when employees really have a right to information – and how HR can react in a legally compliant manner. Part 2 of 4.
The topic of pay transparency is of concern to HR professionals – even if the federal government has not yet presented a new pay transparency law (EntgTranspG) to implement the EU directive. The existing law already provides for rights to information and the media attention on the issue of equal pay is leading to questions from the workforce.
But: When do employees have a right to information? What does such a claim entail – and how should HR react if the employee’s request is not justified? We present employment lawyers with fictitious, tricky scenarios that many HR departments have to deal with today.
