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France: Cabinet adopts pay transparency bill
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...
10 September 2026
Austria: the Labour minister puts the governing coalition under pressure to negotiate pay transparency in 2026
Vienna missed the 7 June 2026 deadline without passing legislation to transpose the EU Pay Transparency Directive. However, Labour Minister Korinna Schumann (SPÖ) caught everyone off guard by...
23 June 2026
UK: towards mandatory ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting
The news. The British Labour government announced on 25 March that it will introduce a bill to make ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting mandatory for companies with 250 or more employees...
14 April 2026
Germany: EU pay transparency directive to force companies to ‘get tough’
Germany introduced a pay transparency law in 2017, meaning companies are already somewhat familiar with the issue. However, the broader scope and stricter requirements of the EU directive, the...
24 October 2025
Italy: European pay transparency directive, a major step forward for businesses
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...
14 October 2025
EU: MEPs want to tackle the gender pay gap
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, two...
2 October 2025
France: La Poste broadens equality agreement to include LGBT+ people
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...
4 September 2025
Netherlands: government launches transposition of pay transparency directive
On 26 March, the Dutch government presented a bill transposing, among other things, the European directive on pay transparency. Companies with more than 50 employees will be subject to new...
18 April 2025
How industrial group Lacroix is harnessing a digital solution to pre-empt pay transparency requirements
The European directive on pay transparency – to be transposed by 2026 at the latest – will generate administrative constraints for companies. That said, it can also become a strategic tool in the...
12 July 2024
EU: Sweden first to launch transposition of pay transparency directive
On 29 May, the Swedish government published a report on the implementation of the Pay Transparency Directive, which must be transposed by EU member states by 7 June 2026. The text, which is the...
19 June 2024
[mind RH study] EU: why the pay transparency directive may not be enough to close the pay gap
By 2026, all European Union countries will have to transpose the directive on pay transparency. While all countries have a legal requirement for equal pay, the gap between the wages paid to men...
4 December 2023
United Kingdom: government reiterates commitment to fostering salary transparency
In response to an open letter published by the recruitment platform Liberty Hive, which in January launched a campaign calling for a law requiring salary transparency on the part of companies, the...
2 June 2023
United States: a law that would make salary transparency mandatory for employers
Since 2021, several U.S. states including California, Connecticut and Washington have followed Colorado’s lead by passing legislation to ensure salary transparency. This forward-thinking...
19 April 2023
Fabrice Staad and Paul Sauveplane (Alan): “We apply radical transparency within the company” (interview)
Digital health insurance company Alan is not only one of France’s stand-out scale-up businesses; it has developed a corporate culture that makes it pretty unique in the world of work. Chief...
5 April 2023
EU: European Parliament votes in favour of the European pay transparency directive
On 30 March 2023 and at a time when the gender wage gap is still at 13% in the European Union, the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly in favour (427 in support and 79 against) of the...
30 March 2023
United States: pay transparency rules enter into force in Washington, California and Rhode Island
Employers in the US state of Washington with 15 employees or more must now detail salary ranges in all job postings, under a new law that took effect on 1 January 2023. Firms are also required to...
6 January 2023
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France: La Poste to launch negotiations for an AI agreement
Following the lead of firms such as Axa, Syensqo globally, and more recently CDC Habitat, La Poste group management will open negotiations on an AI regulation agreement during the first half of...
5 March 2026
Crédit Agricole is to adopt stricter rules on remote work from mid-March onwards. The rules will be tightened for employees, but the maximum number of days working remotely will remain unchanged.
29 January 2026
The three representative trade unions at Orange France have until 10 December to validate an agreement on gender equality, work–life balance and anti-discrimination measures. While the text...
8 December 2025
In 2025, for the first time, the universal registration documents of major European companies contain the sustainability reporting required by the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive...
31 October 2025
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France: vocational training stakeholders sound the alarm
The news. In a joint press conference on 28 September, Les Acteurs de la compétence and Synofdes, French vocational training employers’ federations, joined forces to denounce the...
29 September 2026
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British bank Barclays cuts 5,000 jobs to invest in AI
Banking group Barclays has announced the cutting of 5% of its global workforce by the end of the year. Beyond disappointing quarterly results, Barclays primarily intends to free up the funds...
28 October 2026
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Germany: non-EU recruitment remains marginal despite skilled immigration reform
The news. Nearly a year and a half after the entry into force of the “Skilled Immigration Development Act”, only 4% of businesses have recruited at least one employee directly from a...
28 October 2026