RT Book, Section
T1 The Spanish legal framework for ensuring compliance with gender pay gap transparency
A1 Gómez-Millán Herencia, María José
K1 Gender Pay Gap
K1 Pay Transparency
K1 Job Evaluation Systems
K1 Pay Registers
K1 Pay Audits
AB This chapter explores the last Spanish initiative to address the Gender Pay Gap (GPG) through new equality legislation adopted in 2019. This legislation introduced three pivotal pay transparency tools: legal guidelines for Job Evaluation Systems, Pay Audits and a Pay Register. In 2020, two executive orders further refined these tools and expanded corporate responsibilities through Equality Plans, with additional reinforcements to actively reduce and correct the GPG in Spain. Beyond legal mandates, some companies voluntarily embraced internal rules as part of their commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). This chapter assesses the potential effectiveness of both current hard-law and soft-law Spanish mechanisms to encourage corporate adherence to pay transparency. The chapter critically discusses the alignment of Spanish pay equity and transparency legislation with the newly adopted EU Pay Transparency Directive.
PB Edward Elgar
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10433/24585
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10433/24585
LA en
NO En: Bridging the Gender Pay Gap through Transparency Edited by Sara Benedí Lahuerta, Katharina Miller, and Laura Carlson, Edward Elgar, 978-1-80392-041-9, 2024, pp. 167-188.
NO Departamento de Derecho Privado
DS RIO
RD May 22, 2026