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PAY-TRANSPARENCY artikel 4: Equal work and work of equal value
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CELEX 32023L0970 · 2026-08-22 · Weight 63 · minimal-risk
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What does PAY-TRANSPARENCY Article 4 require, and what outcome does the rule tree give?
PAY-TRANSPARENCY Article 4 is tested here by a deterministic rule tree of 4 rules, built from the article's own conditions. The tree reads your facts and names the outcome that applies, starting with Paragraph 1 addressed to the Member States, no direct obligation for businesses, carrying paragraph citation, content hash and read date 2026-08-22 against CELEX 32023L0970. The outcome is a machine classification, not a compliance decision.
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PAY-TRANSPARENCY Article 4Not yet verifiedOfficial text
- Paragraph 1 addressed to the Member States, no direct obligation for businesses. 1. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that employers have pay structures ensuring equal pay for equal work or work of equal value.
- Paragraph 2 addressed to the Member States, no direct obligation for businesses. 2. Member States shall, in consultation with equality bodies, take the necessary measures to ensure that analytical tools or methodologies are made available and are easily accessible to support and guide the assessment and comparison of the value of work in accordance with the criteria set out in this Article. Those tools or methodologies shall allow employers and/or the social partners to easily establish and use g…
- Paragraph 3 applies. 3. Where appropriate, the Commission may update Union-wide guidelines related to gender-neutral job evaluation and classification systems, in consultation with the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE).
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- in_scopeThe article applies to the situationboolean
- punktParagraph of the articleenum (1 | 2 | 3 | 4)
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If: alla(in_scope = true, punkt = 1)
Paragraph 1 addressed to the Member States, no direct obligation for businesses
1. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that employers have pay structures ensuring equal pay for equal work or work of equal value.
Paragraph 1
If: alla(in_scope = true, punkt = 2)
Paragraph 2 addressed to the Member States, no direct obligation for businesses
2. Member States shall, in consultation with equality bodies, take the necessary measures to ensure that analytical tools or methodologies are made available and are easily accessible to support and guide the assessment and comparison of the value of work in accordance with the criteria set out in this Article. Those tools or methodologies shall allow employers and/or the social partners to easily establish and use g…
Paragraph 2
If: alla(in_scope = true, punkt = 3)
Paragraph 3 applies
3. Where appropriate, the Commission may update Union-wide guidelines related to gender-neutral job evaluation and classification systems, in consultation with the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE).
Paragraph 3
If: alla(in_scope = true, punkt = 4)
Paragraph 4 applies
4. Pay structures shall be such as to enable the assessment of whether workers are in a comparable situation in regard to the value of work on the basis of objective, gender-neutral criteria agreed with workers’ representatives where such representatives exist. Those criteria shall not be based directly or indirectly on workers’ sex. They shall include skills, effort, responsibility and working conditions, and, if ap…
Paragraph 4
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The article text as read
- 11. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that employers have pay structures ensuring equal pay for equal work or work of equal value.
- 22. Member States shall, in consultation with equality bodies, take the necessary measures to ensure that analytical tools or methodologies are made available and are easily accessible to support and guide the assessment and comparison of the value of work in accordance with the criteria set out in this Article. Those tools or methodologies shall allow employers and/or the social partners to easily establish and use gender-neutral job evaluation and classification systems that exclude any pay discrimination on grounds of sex.
- 33. Where appropriate, the Commission may update Union-wide guidelines related to gender-neutral job evaluation and classification systems, in consultation with the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE).
- 44. Pay structures shall be such as to enable the assessment of whether workers are in a comparable situation in regard to the value of work on the basis of objective, gender-neutral criteria agreed with workers’ representatives where such representatives exist. Those criteria shall not be based directly or indirectly on workers’ sex. They shall include skills, effort, responsibility and working conditions, and, if appropriate, any other factors which are relevant to the specific job or position. They shall be applied in an objective gender-neutral manner, excluding any direct or indirect discrimination based on sex. In particular, relevant soft skills shall not be undervalued.
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Citation: 32023L0970 art. 4, Equal work and work of equal value. NovaCopilot, https://legal.exploreworldai.com/agent/lonetransparens-2023-970/artikel-4 (hämtad 2026-08-22, bevis sha256:4be0d678fd00c105, bygge legal-2026-10-25).