Country guide
Pay transparency in Romania
What the EU Pay Transparency Directive means for employers in Romania, based on its national transposition — status, thresholds, the joint-assessment trigger, and where to file.
Romania has not transposed the Directive and missed the 7 June 2026 deadline. A transposition bill, Senat L445/2026, was registered at the Senate on 17 June 2026 and is with the Senate's standing committees. The Legislative Council gave a negative opinion (no. 631 of 29 June 2026), and the Senate's tacit-adoption date is 17 October 2026. Nothing in the bill binds an employer yet.
Romania 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.
Romania 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 | Agenția Națională pentru Egalitatea de Șanse între Femei și Bărbați (ANES) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Frequently asked
Is the EU Pay Transparency Directive in force in Romania?
Romania 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 Romania?
Romania sets reporting duties by employer size; the table below lists each band as the law states it. 150 to 249 employees, from 2027, every three years (anticipated), further conditions apply.
What triggers a joint pay assessment in Romania?
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 (Romania) before relying on it.