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With only a few months remaining before the deadline to transpose the EU pay transparency directive — a reform set to significantly impact employers — mind RH is publishing a series of country overviews examining how its implementation will affect key European markets and how businesses are preparing.
The transposition of the EU Pay Transparency Directive into Spanish labour law will require companies to explain their pay policies. They will have to disclose the pay of existing staff by gender for positions of equal value and the pay conditions offered during recruitment. Spain’s labour ministry has yet to outline the details or timeline for transposing the directive, which foresees a phased implementation based on company size and introduces penalties for non-compliance, varying according to the severity of the breach.
“We are ready, because Spain has already come a long way,” says Jesus Torres Mateos, president of the Spanish association of human resources directors (AEDRH) and corporate HR director at the Prisa group (owner of the daily newspaper El País).
As Madrid correspondent for mind RH since 2021, I cover news developments in Spain's world of work, focusing on legal developments and collective bargaining, particularly around work-life balance, equality and inclusion policies, which have been hot topics in the country in recent years.