Overview
- Germany failed to transpose the 2023 EU pay‑transparency directive by the Sunday, June 7, 2026 deadline and is formally in breach of EU law.
- The Federal Family Ministry says it will pass national implementation in the coming months with a law due by early 2027 and that the new reporting and employee information duties will first take effect in June 2028.
- Family Minister Karin Prien has argued for a ‘bureaucracy‑light’ approach and is negotiating with other EU partners to seek changes to timing or details at EU level.
- The directive requires employers to give salary ranges in job adverts, let workers request average pay for comparable roles, and obliges firms with 100 or more staff to publish regular gender pay reports.
- The move deepens an uneven roll‑out across the bloc — only Italy has fully implemented the rules so far — while Eurostat data show Germany’s unadjusted hourly pay gap at 15.6 percent and firms warn companies face hard technical and social hurdles to comply.