Country guide
Pay transparency in Cyprus
What the EU Pay Transparency Directive means for employers in Cyprus, based on its national transposition — status, thresholds, the joint-assessment trigger, and where to file.
Cyprus has not transposed the Directive (deadline missed). The transposition instrument is a STANDALONE bill — Ο περί Ενίσχυσης της Εφαρμογής της Αρχής της Ισότητας της Αμοιβής μεταξύ Ανδρών και Γυναικών για Όμοια Εργασία ή Εργασία Ίσης Αξίας, μέσω της Μισθολογικής Διαφάνειας και Μηχανισμών Επιβολής Νόμος του 2026 — not an amendment to the existing Equal Pay Law 177(I)/2002, which has bound Cypriot employers since 1 January 2003 (art. 29(1)) and which the bill neither amends nor repeals — art. 30 applies Part V (remedies and procedure) to equal-pay rights as defined in arts. 2 and 5 of that Act, and says nothing about the substantive relationship between the two. Released November 2025; η-Διαβούλευση closed 4 December 2025; MLSI has since published a consultation-results table and a REVISED FINAL version of the bill on the same record. No Gazette reference; the consultation record is marked «Ολοκληρωμένη» and the Commission transposition record for Directive 2023/970 lists Cyprus at 0 notified measures (read 3 September 2026). Whether the bill has been TABLED at the House of Representatives is unknown and is not asserted here: the House, the Government Printing Office and the Law Commissioner each refuse this agent by robots directive, so there is no permitted route to check. Bands and phase-in follow the Directive exactly (250+ annual and 150–249 triennial from 7 June 2027; 100–149 triennial from 7 June 2031). Distinctive national rules: an advertised pay range may not span more than 20% (Art. 6(1)(a)); job-evaluation criteria must be AGREED with employee representatives where they exist (Art. 5(2)); filing is to the Department of Labour Relations as Monitoring Body, which publishes items (a)–(f) comparably while item (g) is never published (Arts. 10, 32(c)); the six-month joint-assessment clock runs from the submission date (Art. 11(1)(c)). RECORDED DEFECT, not modelled: the Art. 2 definition of «κατηγορία εργοδοτουμένων» cross-refers to Art. 6, where the categories are actually set by Art. 5(3) — the platform follows Art. 5(3) and does not model the erroneous cross-reference. Draft is provisional pending enactment.
Cyprus has a transposition bill in progress but has not yet enacted it. The figures below reflect the directive's defaults and the draft as it stands, and may change before the law is final.
Cyprus sets reporting duties by employer size; the table below lists each band as the law states it. The directive's 5% trigger for a joint pay assessment applies until national law sets its own.
Figures are reported to the competent authority rather than published openly. Either way, the underlying work is the same: establish work of equal value through gender-neutral job evaluation, produce the statutory pay-gap report in the national format, and run a joint assessment where the gap is too wide.
Obligations at a glance
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| Joint pay assessment | The directive's 5% trigger for a joint pay assessment applies until national law sets its own. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Public publication | Reported to the authority only | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Competent authority | Τμήμα Εργασιακών Σχέσεων, Υπουργείο Εργασίας και Κοινωνικών Ασφαλίσεων (Department of Labour Relations, MLSI) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Frequently asked
Is the EU Pay Transparency Directive in force in Cyprus?
Cyprus has a transposition bill in progress but has not yet enacted it. The figures below reflect the directive's defaults and the draft as it stands, and may change before the law is final.
Which employers have to report in Cyprus?
Cyprus sets reporting duties by employer size; the table below lists each band as the law states it. 150 or more employees, from 2027, every three years (anticipated).
What triggers a joint pay assessment in Cyprus?
The directive's 5% trigger for a joint pay assessment applies until national law sets its own.
This guide summarises publicly available information for orientation only. It is not legal advice — confirm every figure against the national transposition text (Cyprus) before relying on it.