Companies will annually inform employees about everyone’s pay grade for each of the genders. The MPs adopted a bill to ensure equal pay for equal work after giving it a final reading, IPN reports.

Bill sponsor, MP Doina Gherman said currently the law does not obliges employers to inform employees about the remuneration levels, depending on gender, but bans the disclosure of information about the salary as this is considered confidential information. Therefore, employees cannot find out if they are paid less for the same work as the one done by mates.

The bill introduces such notions as “equal pay” and “work of equal value” in the law on the ensuring of equality as the legislation now does not explicitly define “equal pay”.

It provides that besides the basic salary, the information about the pay grades by categories of employees doing equal work or work of equal value should include any payment in kind or bonuses or additional or variable payments added to the basic salary. The employees will be obliged to present this information regularly.