Overview
- An editorial notes that France is preparing to transpose an EU directive that will require greater salary transparency in the private sector.
- The stated goal is to improve fairness in compensation by reducing disparities between men and women in equivalent roles.
- Mandatory disclosure could disrupt workplace norms in a culture that treats pay as a private matter and may generate tensions inside companies.
- Greater visibility is expected to intensify scrutiny of large pay gaps, with a 2022 Oxfam report citing CEO pay at about 130 times the average employee in CAC 40 firms.
- The piece casts pay transparency as a broader societal and ethical question, invoking the principle of a just wage as a measure of economic justice.