![La réforme doit rendre plus difficiles les différences de rémunération qui ne peuvent être expliquées. [Jean-Marc Barrere / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP]](/cdn-cgi/image/onerror=redirect,width=640,height=640,format=webp/https://storage.googleapis.com/uploads.mongoosehq.com/url/media/170267170/860b86537cdaeaf7266f7301b14ff33159f8daad8c7f367af295e15882ae822e)
Overview
- Labour Minister Jean-Pierre Farandou told union members on Tuesday that the government will present a draft law transposing the EU 2023 pay-transparency directive to the Council of Ministers on 9 September.
- The draft enshrines visible hiring rules including mandatory salary or salary-range publication in job ads and a ban on asking candidates about past pay to stop pay histories from locking in inequalities.
- Employees would gain the right to written information about their own pay and average pay by sex for comparable roles, while firms face regular reporting obligations that rise with company size.
- A reinforced mechanism applies when an average pay gap of at least 5% in a worker category is not justified and not corrected within six months, prompting a joint review and corrective measures.
- Unions welcomed the timetable but warned many technical rules may be set by decrees, that thresholds could blunt impact and that the bill still faces parliamentary examination and possible change before it is final.