Poland: national transposition
How Directive (EU) 2023/970, the EU Pay Transparency Directive, has been brought into national law.
- Status
- Partially transposed
Only the recruitment rules so far, such as pay information for applicants and the ban on asking about pay history. Pay-gap reporting and the other duties still await national law.
- National law
- Ustawa z dnia 4 czerwca 2025 r. o zmianie ustawy – Kodeks pracy (Dz.U. 2025 poz. 807)
- In force since: December 24, 2025
What this means for employers
The parts already adopted apply now. For the rest of the directive, the following applies until national law is adopted:
A directive binds the member states, not employers directly. Until national law is adopted, a private employer generally cannot be held to the directive's new duties, such as pay-gap reporting.
The principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value already applies under Article 157 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU and existing national law, and national courts interpret national law in the light of the directive.
The directive itself sets the first reporting deadline for employers with 150 or more workers at 7 June 2027. National laws can add detail or go further, so check your country's rules once they are adopted.