🇫🇷 France presents pay-transparency bill with 50+ reporting and new salary-disclosure rules

The French Government presented its Directive 2023/970 transposition bill to the Council of Ministers on 10 September. Official materials confirm a proposed 50+ reporting model, job-ad/pay-range disclosure, a salary-history ban and worker pay-information rights; the bill is not yet enacted or publicly filed in Parliament.

France has moved from a generic preparation phase to a concrete Government transposition project. The proposal would replace the current Professional Equality Index with a seven-indicator model from 2028 after retaining the current Index for the 2027 declaration; six private-sector indicators are intended to be pre-calculated from DSN data, while employers establish the category-level indicator. The project also adds remuneration information in job ads and before hiring, bans salary-history questions, creates individual pay-information rights, and applies reporting/correction architecture from 50 workers. For unjustified category gaps, the exact trigger will be set by decree and cannot exceed 5%; 100+ employers would have a remediation route of up to six months before a deeper joint assessment.

French employers should keep complying with the current Professional Equality Index while preparing for a materially different model. Employers with 50+ workers can start validating DSN/payroll data and same/equal-value category mapping, and all employers should prepare recruitment pay-disclosure, salary-history and worker-information workflows. The broader package is still proposed: Parliament has not yet published the filed bill, several calculation and commencement details depend on decrees, and the exact corrective-gap threshold is not final.