Draft Legislation To Transpose The EU Pay Transparency Directive

Poland takes initial steps toward reducing the gender pay gap in line with the EU Pay Transparency Directive, with requirements for employers on sharing pay levels with current and future employees.

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A group of members of Parliament has published a draft bill to transpose part of the European Union (EU) Pay Transparency Directive. While separate from the government's own initial actions, this is an informative opening move to the transposition of the directive in Poland (Sweden is currently the only member state to have published formal, draft transposition provisions for the private sector — see July 2024 Global News Brief: Sweden: Draft legislation to transpose the EU Pay Transparency Directive). As a reminder, the directive aims to ensure equal pay for equal work or work of equal value between men and women by giving employees extensive new rights to information about their own pay and that of their male and female peers in the