Pay transparency

On 01 November salary transparency legislation came into effect in New York City and applies to all job vacancy postings. All businesses looking to recruit must now specify the hourly or annual...

Since Friday 20 May, the upcoming requirement for large companies to disclose their pay gaps has become the centrepiece of the "new capitalism" agenda advocated by Japanese prime minister Fumio...

As part of its annual report, published on 15 September, the professional services group PwC for the first time revealed the “socio-economic background” pay gap for its UK employees. The move...

With both legislative houses of Ireland’s Oireachtas having given their approval on 07 July, and the President’s signature all that remains outstanding, the Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019...

On 1 June, the UK business of French food services group Sodexo published – for the very first time and despite the pandemic – its ethnicity pay gap for the year 2020. According to the firm’s pay...

While the U.K. has given companies with at least 250 staff an extra six months to publish their gender pay gap data (c.f. article No. 12377), only one out of four met the initial 04 April...

On 04 March, the European Commission presented the text of a draft Directive imposing transparency obligations on public and private sector companies in order to ensure their compliance with the...

On 1 March the Spanish government approved a decree-law containing urgent measures to guarantee equal treatment and equal opportunities for men and women at work. The legislation seeks to close...

The law proposed by the government, which was approved by the country’s national assembly and published in its official journal in August, covers three key aspects: raising awareness of the issue...

More than 10,000 UK companies with 250 employees or more published their gender pay gap in time for the April 4 deadline set by the country’s government, as part of a new law adopted in 2017 (see...

On Thursday 30 March, Germany’s Bundestag adopted a long-discussed law on equal pay of men and women. In order to reduce the sizeable wage gap that exists between men and women, the bill...

On Friday 12 February 2016, the UK government confirmed that from 2018, companies employing more than 250 staff would be required to publish gender pay gap details.  Education and Equalities...

The Parliament adopted the reform of the act that contains the obligation for businesses to issue pay statistics divided by gender.  In addition to extending this obligation to all businesses with...