UN Equal Pay Day falls on 18 September, but equal pay for men and women remains a still-distant goal rather than a reality.
How can we close the gap? Governments and businesses worldwide have focused significant efforts on this question. We analyse the recent efforts to address pay inequality, including major developments in the EU, with the Pay Transparency Directive coming onstream across the block. Beyond that, our global Gender Pay Gap Map shows at a glance which countries have put pay gap reporting obligations in place for employers across the world and our various articles and videos below take an in-depth look at pay equity issues in particular places.
Global
20.01.2026
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Gender pay reporting obligations around the world
This map shows at glance which countries currently have reporting obligations in place for employers in relation to what men and women are paid in their organisations.
European Union
04.06.2026
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EU Pay Transparency Directive: which
countries have implemented?
countries have implemented?
The Pay Transparency Directive is the EU’s latest effort to achieve its longstanding principle of equal pay for equal work.
Europe
18.09.2025
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Remedies under the Pay Transparency Directive
Countries are moving forward with implementing the EU Pay Transparency Directive through proposals, draft bills and legislation. Below, we examine the approach of eight countries, focusing on how they’re addressing the directive’s remedy provisions.
Ireland
10.07.2025
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EU Pay Transparency Directive: What’s Clear, What’s Not
The countdown is on. Countries have until June 2026 to implement the EU’s Pay Transparency Directive into their national law. But as employers become increasingly alive to the requirements under the Directive, key questions still remain. How will countries with less experience of collectivism adapt to the collective rights in the Directive? What do recent developments tell us about the implementation of the Directive? Will it be uniform across Member States or more patchwork? And what can employers be doing today to prepare for implementation? In this episode, Síobhra Rush from Ireland and David Lorimer from the UK take a look at some of the key issues with a year to go.
Europe
18.09.2025
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EU Pay Transparency: What you might have missed
There is less than one year to go to the deadline for implementing the EU Pay Transparency Directive. With the clock ticking, we have summarised below some recent updates on national implementation that employers might have missed.
Germany
10.04.2025
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Pay Transparency vs Pay Privacy: How to succeed in both
The EU Pay Transparency Directive (’PTD’) introduces extensive disclosure obligations regarding salary information. At the same time, employers must ensure compliance with the applicable data protection regulations and protect employee privacy. Below, we explore the conflict between transparency requirements and data protection, together with our recommendations.
Ireland
02.04.2025
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EU Pay Transparency Directive: Ireland joins the frontrunners
As the June 2026 deadline for the implementation of the EU Pay Transparency Directive looms ever closer, Ireland has become the fourth EU member state to take steps towards transposing some of the requirements of the Directive.
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