Wage and Hour, EU Directive

EU Pay Transparency Directive: Ireland Joins the Frontrunners

Ius Laboris on 4/7/2025

As the June 2026 deadline for the implementation of the EU Pay Transparency Directive looms ever closer, Ireland has become the fourth EU member state to take steps towards transposing some of the requirements of the...more

UK Retail Workers Win Landmark Equal Pay Case

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 9/19/2024

More than 3,500 workers have won a legal fight for equal pay against major UK retailer Next Retail Ltd. Following a six-year legal battle, the Employment Tribunal ruled that Next had failed to demonstrate that the lower basic...more

Belgian Courts Are Confronted with Their Jurisdictional Limitations When Presiding over Cases Involving an Employer’s Obligation...

Littler on 4/18/2024

In its landmark ruling on May 14, 2019, the European Court of Justice held that the European Working Time Directive (Directive 2003/88) and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (Article 31) is opposed to...more

Pay transparency in the EU: it’s time to prepare

Ius Laboris on 11/15/2023

15 November is European Equal Pay Day. To mark the occasion, we take a look at the EU's Pay Transparency Directive, passed earlier this year. What will it mean for businesses? And what can employers do now to prepare for...more

Pay Transparency Directive FAQs

Ius Laboris on 8/30/2023

The Pay Transparency Directive will create new gender pay gap reporting obligations throughout the EU. In this article, we answer some frequently asked questions about this new legislation....more

“Show Me the Money” – the EU Pay Transparency Directive Comes into Effect

Littler on 6/30/2023

A new EU Directive on pay transparency came into force earlier this month. Member States have until June 7, 2026 to introduce new legislation to give effect to the Directive. European employers should take note as the...more

Breaking the Silence: EU Directive Requires Companies to Reveal Pay Data (UPDATE)

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 5/19/2023

UPDATE: The EU Directive on pay transparency was adopted by the EU Parliament on March 30, 2023, and the EU Council April 24, 2023. On May 17, 2023, it was published on the EU’s Official Journal and will come into force 20...more

New French Law Incorporates EU Directives on Transparent and Predictable Working Conditions and on Work-Life Balance

Littler on 4/17/2023

On March 9, 2023, France adopted a much-anticipated statute transposing into French law the EU Directive on Transparent and Predictable Working Conditions (2019/1152) (I.), and the EU Directive on Work-life Balance for...more

Littler Global Guide - European Union - Q4 2019

Littler on 1/28/2020

EU Approves Directive on Whistleblowing and Internal Channels for Reporting - New Legislation Enacted - On October 23, 2019, the European Parliament approved the Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council...more

Secondment of employees in France: What’s new? Review of the new regulations on the secondment of foreign employees in France

Cohen & Gresser LLP on 12/5/2019

The “Professional Future” law of 5 September 2018 entered fully into force last summer, after publication of decree No. 2019-555 and the order of 4 June 2019, leading to the reform of the system for the secondment of foreign...more

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