[GrumpyNl]

That makes no sense, "Under German law you are not only allowed to talk about your salary with your colleagues" and " it is expressly illegal for your employer to try and stop you from doing this", So its illegal to talk about it, but when you do its illegal for your employer to stop this?

[docdeek]

Not the parent commenter, but it makes sense: you are allowed to talk about your salary, and your boss is not allowed to stop you from doing that.

[dosshell]

English is not my native language but in many germanic languages "not only" does not mean "not" but rather the opposite of "not".

[atoav]

"Not only are you allowed to do X, also boss is explicitly forbidden to prevent you from doing X"

[detaro]

you are misparsing the first quote. it is allowed to talk about it.