PTD-Art.14: Defence of rights
Member States shall ensure that, after possible recourse to conciliation, judicial procedures for the enforcement of the rights and obligations relating to the principle of equal pay are available to all workers who consider themselves wronged by a failure to apply equal pay.
Our statement of the clause of Directive (EU) 2023/970 on pay transparency, held and verified: cite it as PTD-Art.14. The instrument verbatim is not quoted here; the held framework carries the reading.
The evidence this duty asks you to hold
Accessible judicial/complaint procedures for equal-pay claims
What usually goes missing
No effective route for workers to enforce equal-pay rights
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.