The EU's pay transparency rules can help close the gender pay gap and expose how Europe systematically underpays young, migrant, disabled and racialised workers.
As of 2026, workers must adapt to significant changes in the issue of salary. The background is the European pay transparency directive, which is intended to create more openness in pay. The aim is to better recognise whether they are paid fairly. Above all, differences between men and women in the same or equivalent work should be more easily identified. For applicants, employees and employers, this means more information, more comparability an…