Niall Pelly questions whether Ireland will meet the transposition deadline for new EU pay transparency rules.
In just three months’ time by 7 June 2026, member states are required to have transposed the provisions of the EU Pay Transparency Directive (PTD) into national law.
The obligations imposed by the PTD are extensive and represent one of the most significant regulatory developments for employers in decades. Yet in Ireland, there remains considerable uncertainty as to how these obligations will be implemented and indeed if these will be on time.
A recent Mercer survey suggests that only six per cent of Irish employers consider themselves prepared for the transposition deadline. Perhaps this is no surprise, however, when so much uncertainty as to how this will be implemented in Ireland remains.
In this article, we explore the current state of play and what might be a sensible route forward to transposition in Ireland.
The PTD requires employers to provide pay range information to job applicants prior to employment, prohibits questions about pay history, and grants workers the right to request and receive written information about their own pay and average pay levels broken down by sex for workers doing the same work as them or work of equal value to theirs.
Employers must also disclose the objective and gender-neutral criteria used to determine pay, pay levels and pay progression (subject to limited exemptions), may not impose pay...
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