Entgelttransparenz in Estonia

Estonia transposed the Directive IN PART by RT I, 03.07.2026, 27 (adopted 17 June 2026), in force 13 July 2026. Six pay duties were enacted. In the Töölepingu seadus: a salary-history ban (§ 11(2¹)), pay or pay range in writing before the interview (§ 11(2²)), a duty not to hinder an employee disclosing the amount of their own pay (§ 28(2) p 14), and an equal-pay duty (§ 29(6¹)). In the Avaliku teenistuse seadus: equal pay (§ 13) and basic pay or range before the recruitment interview (§ 18(1¹)) — the public-service rule is worded on põhipalk (basic pay) where the private-sector rule says töötasu, which is the legislature's distinction and not a translation artefact. That act creates NO pay-gap report, no joint assessment, no pay-structure duty, no published pay-setting criteria and no right to comparative pay data. Estonia's pay-gap instrument is instead Palgapeegel, an expressly VOLUNTARY digital service for employers under SoVS § 11¹ ("vabatahtlik digiteenus"), fed from the tax and social-insurance registers on the employer's own application, whose indicators are not stored. The act's 1 January 2027 commencement (§ 7) attaches to its § 1 points 9–11 — two cross-reference swaps and a repeal — and defers no pay duty: all six were in force on 13 July 2026.