Under plans drawn up at Thursday's meeting, workers at German businesses with 200 employees or more will have a right to claim information on "whether they are unfairly paid", said Thomas Oppermann, leader of the Social Democrats' (SPD) parliamentary group.
Businesses with 500 or more workers would face additional scrutiny, and be forced to provide regular reports on their pay structures.
Oppermann said 14 million workers across Germany would benefit from the new rules, which he said was a "great step forward. [...]
But the opposition Green party criticized the revisions, saying the law would be ineffective for most women employees, who work for small and medium-sized enterprises.
Eurostat statistics show that women in German earn on average 21 percent less than men.
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