Right to information
An employee's right to ask for their pay level and the average levels for work of equal value, broken down by sex.
Employees may request information about their own pay level and about average pay levels, broken down by sex, for categories of workers doing the same work or work of equal value. The employer must answer within a defined period. The obligation is continuous rather than annual: it does not wait for a reporting cycle, which is why the underlying data has to be maintained rather than assembled once a year. Employers may not prevent workers from disclosing their own pay.
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Burden of proof
Where an employer has not met its transparency obligations, it falls on the employer to show there was no …
Directive 2023/970
The EU pay transparency directive that member states must transpose, and which the Slovak act implements.
Equal Pay Act (76/2026 Z. z.)
The Slovak act transposing Directive 2023/970, in force since 7 June 2026 and the first full transposition in …
Headcount threshold
The employee count that decides whether an employer reports, and how often.
Joint pay assessment
The assessment an employer must carry out when a category shows an unexplained gap of 5% or more.
Reporting period
The window of pay data a report covers. The first Slovak period runs 1 August to 31 December 2026.
Start with a baseline on your own data.
One pay-period extract produces the seven figures, the categories that breach, and what closing them would cost.