In December 2025, Poland cemented its position as the
front-runner in the race to implement the EU Pay Transparency
Directive, with new legislation coming into force and a
comprehensive draft bill being published. Together, they seek to
comprehensively transpose the provisions of the Directive. We
examine the details below.
December2025was a busy month in Polandon thepay
transparencyfrontwith the countrytaking significant steps toward
implementing theEU Pay Transparency Directive.Effective24 December
2025, new rulesnowapply to the recruitment processin Poland,
requiring employers todisclosestarting pay or salary ranges to
candidates and use gender-neutral job titles. Meanwhile, a draft
bill published on 16 December 2025 outlines comprehensive measures
to enforce pay equity across the workforce, including mandatory job
evaluations, annual wage gap calculations for larger employers, and
new employee rights to pay information.In this article, wetake a
lookat the new
