Overview
- Ireland has told the European Commission it will not meet the EU Pay Transparency Directive transposition deadline and will phase implementation while not penalising employers during the transposition period.
- The Irish Congress of Trade Unions called the delay unacceptable and said it will cost working women more than €570 million a year in lost wages if reforms are postponed.
- Ibec, the employers’ group, has asked the government to push the start date back at least a year and warned that extra national rules or 'gold‑plating' increase costs and planning burdens for businesses.
- Italy has published a final decree to implement the Directive and is one of the few member states to move ahead, setting rules that tie pay assessments to national collective bargaining and require employers to answer pay information requests.
- With most EU states still late or taking different approaches, multinational employers must track country‑by‑country rules on pay ranges in job ads, response times for pay information requests, reporting thresholds, and remediation steps.