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Which employees must be covered by the pay survey?
All employees

The pay survey concerns all personnel groups in the service of the employer. In other words, the pay survey shall cover all employees.

Irrespective of the form of pay

The survey shall cover as well employees paid by the hour, as those receiving a monthly salary and the ones paid on the basis of performance.

Irrespective of unionisation

The pay survey covers both unionised and non-unionised employees.

Part-time and fixed-term employees

The pay survey shall also concern wages and salaries of part-time and fixed-term employees. The wages and salaries of part-timers may be taken into account in proportion to working hours and compared with the pay of full-time employees performing equal work or work of equal value.

How about temporary workers?

The obligation to conduct a pay survey concerning the pay of temporary workers applies to the temporary agency, i.e. the agency that has entered into an employment contract with the employees. Consequently, the enterprise leasing labour from another corporation (the user enterprise) does not have to include the pay for temporary workers in its own pay survey. The prohibition of pay discrimination as referred to in the Equality Act does not impose any obligations concerning the pay of temporary workers on the user enterprise.

To a certain extent, however, temporary workers do work under the direction and management of the user enterprise. It is therefore justified that temporary workers are, to the extent that these situations are addressed in the gender equality plan, also covered. Examples of issues referred to above include sexual harassment and gender-based harassment, division of work and working conditions.