How would the established practice in many companies of offering equal levels of gross salary be treated, where employees with greater professional experience are effectively disadvantaged because their base salary is lower than that of colleagues with little or no professional experience?

All differences in remuneration should be capable of objective and neutral justification; otherwise they will be reflected and visible in the reports submitted to the institutions. In other words, if there is a difference in base salaries and more experienced specialists receive lower remuneration, this must be objectively justified. This is particularly relevant because the Bulgarian Labour Code requires remuneration to be determined as base salary, not as gross salary.