After several months of delay beyond the European deadline of 7 June 2026, French Labour Minister Jean-Pierre Farandou finally presented the bill transposing the Pay Transparency Directive to the Cabinet on Thursday, 10 September. The legislation requires companies with at least 50 employees to shed light on their pay systems in order to reduce pay gaps for equivalent work, particularly between women and men. The bill must now be examined by Parliament.
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The Cabinet today adopted the bill transposing into French law the European Pay Transparency Directive adopted in 2023, with neither “over-transposition nor under-transposition”, according to the Ministry of Labour. The text, which remains very close to the draft bill presented on 6 March following its review by the Conseil d’État, is the result of “a compromise reached after nearly a year of consultations with the social partners”, the Ministry said: “Disagreements were expressed, we took them into account and we managed to reach a balance with this text.”
In line with the European directive, the bill aims to “correct persistent and ‘unexplained’ inequalities” in pay between women and men “for the same work or work of equal value”.
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Nathalie Tran
Editor-in-Chief Mind HR