Exclusif Réglementaire Italy: European pay transparency directive, a major step forward for businesses Comp and Ben @en Italy’s labour market continues to suffer from limited pay transparency and a persistent gender pay gap. The forthcoming implementation of the EU pay transparency directive — still awaiting transposition — could help address these issues, provided it drives a genuine cultural shift.
EU: MEPs want to tackle the gender pay gap European legislation In 2023, women in the EU still earned on average 12% less per hour than men. In a report presented to the European Parliament’s Employment and Social Affairs Committee on 29 September,…
France: agreement to boost gender diversity struck at 3M National industrial relations In an agreement signed on 26 June, the industrial company 3M France, which has nearly 800 employees, and representative trade unions signed a new agreement on professional equality.…
France: La Poste broadens equality agreement to include LGBT+ people National industrial relations French postal group La Poste, which employs 200,000 people in France, has signed a new professional equality agreement with four trade unions. Covering 2025–2027, it expands efforts to tackle discrimination and introduces new measures on women’s health as well as LGBT+ inclusion in parental support schemes.
France: banking group BPCE steps up efforts to promote professional equality with new agreement National industrial relations On 16 June 2025, the management of French banking group BPCE's holding company and five trade unions signed a new agreement on professional equality. It renews the group's ambition by introducing gender diversity targets for management positions where women are under-represented and by proposing measures to help employees achieve a better work-life balance.
France: Apicil bolsters diversity policy with new agreement National industrial relations French insurer Apicil (2,000 employees) signed a new four-year agreement on diversity and inclusion with the CFDT, CFE-CGC and UNSA trade unions on 18 February 2025. Through this agreement, the group reaffirmed its commitments on eight priority areas, which are designed to cover the 26 criteria for discrimination established by law, while raising its targets as part of a continuous improvement process, particularly in terms of gender equality and parenthood.
Réglementaire France: professional equality index set for complete overhaul National legislation Speaking in France’s National Assembly on 14 May, labour minister Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet set out plans for how the European directive on pay transparency will be transposed into domestic legislation.…
Exclusif France: agreement on professional equality to attract and retain staff signed at electricity network operator RTE National industrial relations On 2 April 2025, the management of French company RTE, which has 10,000 employees, and the CFDT, CFE-CGC and FO trade unions signed a fourth agreement on professional equality. It sets targets for increasing the proportion of women holding jobs at the company, introduces a referral bonus for hiring women and strengthens measures to support parents. With the workforce still largely male, these measures are important for the attractiveness of the publicly owned company, which needs to recruit heavily in the coming years.
SAP significantly waters down diversity programme Diversity In response to US President Donald Trump's executive order to abolish diversity policies, the German business software leader has announced that it is scrapping its target of 40% women in its workforce by 2030, among other measures. SAP is the first major German company to align itself so clearly with the new US policy. Opponents of this "counter-revolution" are fearful of a knock-on effect.
Réglementaire Netherlands: government launches transposition of pay transparency directive National legislation On 26 March, the Dutch government presented a bill transposing, among other things, the European directive on pay transparency.…
