PTD-Art.23: Penalties
Member States shall lay down rules on effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties (including fines) applicable to infringements of the rights and obligations relating to the principle of equal pay, taking into account aggravating factors such as repeated infringement.
Our statement of the clause of Directive (EU) 2023/970 on pay transparency, held and verified: cite it as PTD-Art.23. The instrument verbatim is not quoted here; the held framework carries the reading.
The evidence this duty asks you to hold
A penalties regime for equal-pay infringements (incl fines)
What usually goes missing
No effective sanctions for equal-pay breaches
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.