Employers taking steps ahead of pay transparency reporting rules

EU Pay Transparency Directive: Employers to justify  gender-pay gaps of over 5%, job adverts will have to offer info on salary ranges

Pay transparency: Job advertisements and interviews will have to offer info on salary ranges, while interviewers will be prohibited from asking job applicants about their pay history.

Employers are racing to stay ahead of the legal requirement for openness on on gender-pay-gap reporting since the EU Pay Transparency Directive came into effect in June 2023.

While Ireland has three years to transpose the directive into domestic law, some companies are viewing the new reporting as an opportunity to promote their salary transparency as part of their attractiveness as a workplace.