PTD-Art.10: Joint pay assessment
Where pay reporting reveals a difference in average pay level between female and male workers of at least 5 % in any category that the employer cannot justify on objective, gender-neutral criteria and has not remedied within six months, the employer shall conduct, in cooperation with workers' representatives, a joint pay assessment.
Our statement of the clause of Directive (EU) 2023/970 on pay transparency, held and verified: cite it as PTD-Art.10. The instrument verbatim is not quoted here; the held framework carries the reading.
The evidence this duty asks you to hold
A joint pay assessment conducted with worker representatives where the 5% trigger applies; Plan to remedy unjustified pay differences
What usually goes missing
No joint pay assessment despite an unjustified >=5% gap; Failure to involve worker representatives
Where this lands in an audit
In Equal Pay Auditor this control informs the same-work screen, the category figures and the remediation steps, which carry their article citations on the result.