{"id":1592,"date":"2025-04-03T12:38:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T10:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/uncategorized\/veranderingen-in-loonbeleid\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T10:34:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:34:53","slug":"changes-in-wage-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/veranderingen-in-loonbeleid\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes in wage policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A bill to ensure transparency and equal pay for men and women is on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.internetconsultatie.nl\/wetimplementatierichtlijnloontransparantiemannenenvrouwen\/b1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">internet consultation<\/a> gone. The proposal aims to implement the European Pay Transparency Directive and imposes a number of obligations on employers to address unjustified pay gaps and create a fairer pay environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What does the bill mean for employers?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Objective and gender-neutral wage structures<\/span><br>Employers should establish pay structures based on objective criteria. This means that employees should be rewarded based on their position and performance, not their gender.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"2\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ban on asking about last-earned salary<\/span><br>Employers are no longer allowed to ask job applicants about their previous salary. This ban prevents women, for example, who often start lower, from receiving a lower salary with a new employer.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"3\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Reporting requirements<\/span><br>Employers with 100 or more employees must report pay gaps within their organisation and make this data public. This should increase transparency and awareness of pay gaps.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Given the impending legislation, it is wise for employers to start mapping their pay structures and pay gaps now and prepare for the changes.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Een wetsvoorstel dat moet zorgen voor transparantie en gelijke beloning voor mannen en vrouwen is ter internetconsultatie gegaan. Het voorstel beoogt het implementeren van de Europese Richtlijn voor loontransparantie en legt werkgevers een aantal verplichtingen op om ongerechtvaardigde loonverschillen aan te pakken en een eerlijker beloningsklimaat te cre\u00ebren. Wat houdt het wetsvoorstel in voor werkgevers? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}