Insights
The directive, explained.
Short, accurate explainers on what the EU Pay Transparency Directive actually asks of employers — written around the obligation, not around a product.
Establishing work of equal value
The directive's hardest and most-skipped step: comparing different jobs objectively — not by title, and not by market rate.
The statutory pay-gap report
What has to be reported, by which employers, and when — and why a national filing is not a dashboard.
The joint pay assessment
What a 5% gap triggers, who has to be involved, and what closing it actually requires.
Workers' right to pay information
Employees can ask what others doing work of equal value are paid, broken down by gender — and you have a deadline to answer.
Pay transparency in recruitment
Pay ranges shared before interview, no questions about salary history, and gender-neutral hiring.
Who's covered, and by when
The size thresholds, the reporting phase-in, and why your real deadline is national.
Penalties and enforcement
A shifted burden of proof, uncapped compensation, and penalties member states must make dissuasive.
How to prepare
A practical sequence: clean data, an objective equal-value framework, close the gaps, and stand up the new rights.
By country
Guides by country
How the directive lands in each member state — its transposition status, thresholds and competent authority, country by country.
- Austria Not yet transposed
- Belgium Partially in force
- Bulgaria Draft / in progress
- Croatia Not yet transposed
- Cyprus Draft / in progress
- Czech Republic Partially in force
- Denmark Draft / in progress
- Estonia Partially in force
- Finland Draft / in progress
- France Draft / in progress
- Germany Not yet transposed
- Greece Transposed
- Hungary Not yet transposed
- Ireland Draft / in progress
- Italy Transposed
- Latvia Draft / in progress
- Lithuania Transposed
- Luxembourg Not yet transposed
- Malta Transposed
- Netherlands Draft / in progress
- Poland Partially in force
- Portugal Draft / in progress
- Romania Draft / in progress
- Slovakia Transposed
- Slovenia Not yet transposed
- Spain Not yet transposed
- Sweden Not yet transposed
- Switzerland Outside the directive's scope
- United Kingdom Outside the directive's scope
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