EU Directive on Pay Transparency - Closing the Gender Pay Gap

Описание: As the only Irish MEP involved in the negotiations, I fought hard for the introduction of binding pay-transparency measures with the Pay Transparency Directive.

It is a measure and movement that is long overdue, but very welcome.

The right to equal pay for the same work – or work of equal value – between female and male workers has been a founding principle of the European Union since the 1957 Treaty of Rome. Nonetheless, the gender pay gap in the EU remains at 12.7%, according to the latest Eurostat findings. The lack of pay transparency has created a grey zone favouring the perpetuation of gender bias in the setting of salaries.

Pay secrecy will also be banned and employers will not be allowed to restrict workers from disclosing their pay.

As well, for the first time, intersectional discrimination and the rights of non-binary persons have been included within the scope of the new Directive.

This Directive brings us a step closer to eradicating the pay gap across Europe.

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