{"id":72241,"date":"2026-10-26T14:36:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T13:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/?p=72241"},"modified":"2026-10-26T14:36:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T13:36:24","slug":"can-employees-rely-on-the-pay-transparency-directive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/can-employees-rely-on-the-pay-transparency-directive\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Employees Rely on the Pay Transparency Directive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The deadline for transposing the EU Pay Transparency Directive to Polish law passed on 7 June 2026. After that date, employees may seek to rely on its provisions in court, though whether they can actually do so depends on the type of employer and the specific provision in question.<\/p>\n<p>The position differs for employees in the public sector and those employed by private companies. In disputes with public-sector employers, employees may rely directly on the provisions of the directive where those provisions are sufficiently precise and unconditional. By contrast, in disputes with private employers, the directive cannot serve as a general basis for imposing obligations on them.<\/p>\n<p>This does not mean that employees of private companies are left without protection. They may pursue their rights under Polish law, which should be interpreted in accordance with EU law, including the Pay Transparency Directive.<\/p>\n<p>Find more articles in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/pro-hr-october-2026\/\"><strong>PRO HR October 2026<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deadline for transposing the EU Pay Transparency Directive to Polish law passed on 7 June 2026. After that date, employees may seek to rely on its provisions in court, though whether they can actually do so depends on the type of employer and the specific provision in question. The position differs for employees in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-72241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bez-kategorii","tag-katarzyna-wilczyk"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72242,"href":"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72241\/revisions\/72242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}