PTD-Art.4: Equal work and work of equal value
Member States shall ensure employers have pay structures ensuring equal pay for equal work or work of equal value, with objective, gender-neutral criteria (including skills, effort, responsibility and working conditions) for determining the value of work, and tools or methodologies to assess and compare the value of work.
Our statement of the clause of Directive (EU) 2023/970 on pay transparency, held and verified: cite it as PTD-Art.4. The instrument verbatim is not quoted here; the held framework carries the reading.
The evidence this duty asks you to hold
A gender-neutral job evaluation and classification system; Objective criteria for comparing the value of work
What usually goes missing
Pay structures with no gender-neutral evaluation criteria; Subjective or opaque grading
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.