Cade recommends that the government take a step back on salary equity – 03/14/2024 – Panel SA

Cade’s Economic Studies Directorate recommended the cancellation of legal provisions that oblige companies to disclose salaries paid to men and women.

The determination follows a decree from the Ministry of Labor and Employment that aims to encourage salary equity.

However, the board sees the risk that this disclosure will expose the companies’ remuneration policy, opening space for collusion between companies and even the formation of a cartel.

Companies and class entities have already gone to the Supreme Court, questioning the constitutionality of this specific point of the law.

At the request of Cade’s president, Alexandre Cordeiro de Macedo, DEE prepared a study and made recommendations to the ministry.

If the cancellation of this measure is not maintained, the body recommends that the ministry create mechanisms to prevent “this information from becoming an instrument that facilitates collusive behavior, which may cause damage to free competition and, also, negative effects on the market itself.” work”.

For Cade, hiring professionals can constitute an important competitive variable. Disclosing them puts the strategy of many companies at risk, especially those whose business is based on the intellectual capacity of their employees.

“The information regarding the values ​​of various installments that may make up the remuneration of a given worker is competitively sensitive and can facilitate coordination between competitors, if published by companies on their own websites, or even in reports produced by the ministry”, says the seem.

With Diego Felix

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