Latest news and stories about salary transparency in legal in Portugal for expats and residents.
The European Union has implemented new mandatory salary transparency regulations designed to address pay gaps and empower employees with greater insight into labour market compensation standards.
The upcoming transposition of EU Directive 2023/970 into Portuguese law sparks debate over whether salary transparency enhances competitive advantage or risks anti-competitive wage collusion.
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The European Commission is analysing the transposition of new salary transparency rules by Portugal and other member states. It may open an infringement procedure for non-compliance.
Portugal has until June 7th to transpose the European directive on salary transparency into its legal system. Are companies prepared for the new rules? What benefits will they have? What do workers gain? Will greater transparency impact salary growth?
A European directive prohibits questions about salary history and mandates audits to identify gender pay gaps. Portugal was supposed to transpose it by next Sunday but has not yet done so.
An overview of the new regulations regarding pay transparency that will come into effect for Portuguese businesses on June 7.
An overview of the upcoming changes regarding pay transparency regulations in Portugal.
In this week's episode of Eu Explico, we invited Tiago de Magalhães, a Labour Law attorney at CMS Portugal, to explain the salary transparency directive to us.
New regulations on pay transparency are set to take effect, requiring businesses in Portugal to comply within a six-week timeframe.
Directive (EU) 2023/970 is frequently associated with the most visible aspects of the new regime: the disclosure of salary bands, the strengthening of information duties, the reporting of the gender pay gap, and increased scrutiny of remuneration differences between women and men. All of this is true, but what the directive actually requires of...
Remuneration inequality remains one of the most persistent expressions of structural asymmetries in the labour market. Fueled, among other things, by stereotypes and the unequal distribution of care responsibilities, it continues to affect women particularly severely, especially in terms of professional progression and salary appreciation. In this context, Directive (EU) 2023/970, more...
More than a legal requirement, salary transparency constitutes a true test of organizational maturity.
With the transposition of the European Directive approaching, salary transparency has ceased to be an abstract topic and has become a structural requirement, with a direct impact on how organisations position themselves internally and externally. Despite this, the debate remains very focused on general principles, while the main concern for organisations is how to operationalise it.
The country needs to align its labour framework with the demands for salary transparency, but it must also go beyond the minimum requirements.
