Overview
- The Council of Ministers is examining a 16-article draft to transpose EU Directive 2023/970, which the government aims to complete by June 2026 after consultation with unions and employer groups.
- Employees would gain the right to receive, within two months, written information on average pay by gender for comparable roles and to access the criteria used to set pay and progression, and they may disclose their own pay.
- Job postings would need to state the starting salary or range, and employers would be barred from asking candidates about current or past pay or obtaining it indirectly.
- Employers, notably those with at least 100 employees, would report gender pay-gap data to a Labour Ministry monitoring body and correct unjustified differences above 5% within a set timeframe, with sanctions possible for violations.
- The framework leans on collective bargaining for job classification and pay criteria, creates a national platform to collect and publish pay data, and signals relief for smaller firms and stronger conciliation to curb litigation risk.