Equal pay for equal work between men and women (pay transparency and enforcement mechanisms)
Proposed directive on equal pay for equal work between men and women, including pay transparency and enforcement mechanisms. Several amendments reject the Commission proposal, citing subsidiarity, proportionality and the European Parliamentary Research Service appraisal, while others address penalties and sanctions for infringements, employer obligations, monitoring or equality bodies, and ground equal-pay rights in the TFEU, the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Court of Justice case-law.
Procedure timeline
- Committee amendments tabled26 Oct 2021
- Plenary vote — Passed5 Apr 2022 · On a decision to open negotiations with the Council on the text
- Plenary vote — Passed30 Mar 2023 · On the provisional agreement negotiated with the Council (the trilogue deal) · amendment 172
- Procedure completed
Plenary votes
4 roll-call votesIn plenary, Parliament usually votes in steps: first on amendments to the text (sometimes split into parts, so Members can accept one half of a sentence and reject the other), then on the text as a whole. The “main vote” is the one that adopts or rejects the text itself. Each vote below shows exactly which step it was. How voting works →
Where each group stood at the decisive votes
Milestones are the votes that adopt or reject text (not every amendment vote) — the percentage is the share of the group’s Members behind that position. Click a column heading to open the vote below.
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- 5 Apr 2022Main votePassedoutcome from totalsOn a decision to open negotiations with the Council on the textOfficial label: Décision d'engager des négociations interinstitutionnelles · what was voted ↗403 for166 against58 abstentions78 did not voteForAgainstAbst.
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- 30 Mar 2023Failedoutcome from totalsOn a procedural request on the voteOfficial label: Demande de vote sur les amendements au projet d'acte législatif · what was voted ↗124 for440 against12 abstentions129 did not voteForAgainstAbst.
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- 30 Mar 2023Failedoutcome from totalsOn a motion to reject the proposal · the Commission proposal (the draft law) · amendment 174Official label: Proposition de rejet de la proposition de la Commission - Am 174 · what was voted ↗59 for453 against69 abstentions124 did not voteForAgainstAbst.
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- 30 Mar 2023Main votePassedoutcome from totalsOn the provisional agreement negotiated with the Council (the trilogue deal) · amendment 172Official label: Accord provisoire - Am 172 · what was voted ↗427 for79 against76 abstentions123 did not voteForAgainstAbst.
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Vote data: HowTheyVote.eu (ODbL, attribution) / European Parliament · roll-call votes only
Official amendment documents
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105 Members · by amendment count
The amendments, in full text
943 amendmentsEvery amendment as tabled — original text, proposed change and justification, with a link to the official PDF.