PTD-Art.25: Victimisation and protection against less favourable treatment
Workers and their representatives shall be protected against any adverse treatment or adverse consequence as a reaction to a complaint or to proceedings aimed at enforcing the principle of equal pay.
Our statement of the clause of Directive (EU) 2023/970 on pay transparency, held and verified: cite it as PTD-Art.25. The instrument verbatim is not quoted here; the held framework carries the reading.
The evidence this duty asks you to hold
Protection against victimisation for raising or supporting equal-pay claims
What usually goes missing
Detrimental treatment of workers who assert 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.