PTD-Art.5: Pay transparency prior to employment
Applicants for employment shall have the right to receive from the prospective employer information on the initial pay or its range (based on objective, gender-neutral criteria) for the position; employers shall not ask applicants about their pay history, and vacancy notices/job titles shall be gender-neutral and recruitment processes non-discriminatory.
Our statement of the clause of Directive (EU) 2023/970 on pay transparency, held and verified: cite it as PTD-Art.5. The instrument verbatim is not quoted here; the held framework carries the reading.
The evidence this duty asks you to hold
Pay range disclosed in vacancy notices or before interview; Recruitment policy banning pay-history questions; Gender-neutral job titles
What usually goes missing
No pay range provided to applicants; Asking candidates about pay history
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.