Pay Transparency: The Directive That Shows What Work Is Worth, The HR World
June 10, 2026Partner Louise Skinner and associates Margaret McDowell and Aaron Grant co-authored an article for The HR World examining the EU Pay Transparency Directive and its far-reaching implications for employers, recruiters, and multinational organizations.
The article examines the Directive’s wide-ranging requirements, including restrictions on salary history inquiries, pay disclosure obligations during recruitment, employee rights to pay information, gender pay reporting requirements, and joint pay assessment obligations. The authors also discuss the challenges facing multinational employers as they navigate differing transparency requirements across jurisdictions, particularly in the European Union and United States.
The article notes that “the variance in these laws, coupled with the lack of guidance in certain laws regarding the geographic scope of their applicability, has made compliance an increasingly complex exercise.”