La trasparenza retributiva in Latvia

Latvia has not transposed the Directive (deadline missed), and that is confirmed from the in-force text rather than from an absence of news: the Darba likums' own EU-directives annex — the place a transposition would have to appear — runs to 33 items and ends at 2019/1158, and the string "2023/970" occurs zero times in the whole Act. (One near-miss to not mistake for a transparency duty: "pārredzam" occurs once, inside item 32's title for Directive 2019/1152 on transparent and predictable working CONDITIONS, a different instrument.) The transposition instrument is a STANDALONE new Act — Darba samaksas pārredzamības likums, Labklājības ministrija, TAP file 26-TA-700 — not amendments to the Darba likums. As at 3 September 2026 it was at inter-ministerial consultation (Virzības stadija "Saskaņošana"), sent 27 June 2026 with a 10 July 2026 deadline. Its entry-into-force clause is BLANK — the heading is followed by nothing and the signature line beneath it is the drafting template's own dummy — so the Act has no commencement date at all, and nothing in it names a date it was intended to meet. Distinctive national rules: a fixed 1 June annual filing date on the previous calendar year (§ 10(4)); mandatory submission to a state authority whose CHANNEL is deferred to Cabinet regulation by § 10(6), which Pārejas noteikumi 6 requires the Cabinet to issue by 1 May 2027, with employer publication of items 1–6 merely permitted ("var publicēt") and item 7 never published (§§ 10(6), (8)–(9)); permanent bands of 250+ annual and 100–249 triennial, with the 150–249 slice and the 100–149 slice each brought in by a transitional provision; job-evaluation criteria must be AGREED with employee representatives (§ 3(2)); the pay range must appear IN THE ADVERT (§ 6(2)); the six-month joint-assessment clock runs from the report submission date (§ 11(1)(3)); and an unjustified >5% gap is a public-procurement exclusion ground (§ 20). Two affirmative gaps in the text: it sets headcount bands but NEVER defines how employees are counted (no FTE rule, no reference date), and it contains NO small-number suppression floor of any kind. Draft is provisional pending enactment — but see the regime entry: the Darba likums binds today.