The EU Pay Transparency Directive came into effect in June 2023, and the member states have three years to incorporate it into domestic law.
Key points:
1. Pay ranges must always be disclosed in job ads.
2. Companies cannot ask about previous or current pay.
3. Companies cannot prohibit employees from disclosing their pay details.
4. Employees can request information about their pay level, and average pay levels broken down by gender and category of workers doing the same or equal work.
@hausaffe if it's not a rhetorical question - directives need to be incorporated into national laws, which is a time-consuming process. Members need to draft/update their laws, have parliamentary and public debates, reviews, voting, or a timeframe to properly challenge the directive. Directives are frameworks, members have a degree of sovereignty in how they implement them and how they run their legislative system.
If anyone's curious, some info can be found here:
https://commission.europa.eu/law/application-eu-law/implementing-eu-law_en
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