EU Pay Transparency Deadline Passes With Most States Not Ready
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European Union
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCELittler[1]: "governments were required to transpose the EU Pay Transparency Directive into national law by June 7, 2026", matching Article 34(1) of the directive ("by 7 June 2026").
The 7 June 2026 deadline to write the Pay Transparency Directive into national law passed with only Italy, Slovakia and Malta (and, by some counts, Lithuania) done; the Netherlands, Sweden, Czechia and Denmark said they would apply it from 1 January 2027.
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