[Spain] Companies must now make employee salaries public

As of April 14, 2021, all businesses in Spain have to publish their workers' salaries, a measure aimed at closing the country's gender pay gap. This is only one in an increasing series of requirements and obligations being imposed on companies by Spanish legislators, The Local reports.

If the battery of measures published during the COVID-19 pandemic period were not enough, an additional workload has now been imposed on employers as a result of the publication of Royal Decree 902/2020 of 13 October on equal pay for women and men, which came into force on April 14th 2021.

The Decree sets out the obligation that all companies must keep a salary register - though this portion has been imposed since March 8, 2019 - and that only the companies with an equality plan must have an equal pay audit. The new audit terms came into force on April 14, 2021.

The Decree is aimed both at implementing article 28 of the Consolidated Text of the Workers’ Statute (Salary register) and imposing the obligation to conduct an equal pay audit on the companies required to carry out an equality plan.

Salary register

The Royal Decree sets out measures to make the right to equal treatment and non-discrimination effective between women and men in terms of salaries by developing mechanisms to identify, correct and combat salary discrimination and fostering the necessary conditions.

The regulation is aimed at the employment relations regulated in the Workers’ Statute, so it will be applied to all the ordinary and special employment relations.

Article 28.2 of the Workers’ Statute (its amendment came into force on March 19, 2008) states that all companies must keep a salary register of all their workforce, including managerial and senior positions.

As of April 14, 2021, all businesses in Spain have to publish their workers' salaries, a measure aimed at closing the country's gender pay gap. This is only one in an increasing series of requirements and obligations being imposed on companies by Spanish legislators, The Local reports.

If the battery of measures published during the COVID-19 pandemic period were not enough, an additional workload has now been imposed on employers as a result of the publication of Royal Decree 902/2020 of 13 October on equal pay for women and men, which came into force on April 14th 2021.

The Decree sets out the obligation that all companies must keep a salary register - though this portion has been imposed since March 8, 2019 - and that only the companies with an equality plan must have an equal pay audit. The new audit terms came into force on April 14, 2021.

The Decree is aimed both at implementing article 28 of the Consolidated Text of the Workers’ Statute (Salary register) and imposing the obligation to conduct an equal pay audit on the companies required to carry out an equality plan.

Salary register

The Royal Decree sets out measures to make the right to equal treatment and non-discrimination effective between women and men in terms of salaries by developing mechanisms to identify, correct and combat salary discrimination and fostering the necessary conditions.

The regulation is aimed at the employment relations regulated in the Workers’ Statute, so it will be applied to all the ordinary and special employment relations.

Article 28.2 of the Workers’ Statute (its amendment came into force on March 19, 2008) states that all companies must keep a salary register of all their workforce, including managerial and senior positions.