Pay transparency

News, analysis and opinion pieces on pay transparency published on AGENTE LEX.

Editorial: law firms should not wait for the royal decree to measure their pay gap

The European pay transparency directive sets June 2027 for the first gap reports of large companies. The Spanish text is still a draft. Law firms have good reasons not to wait.

Agente Lex Newsroom18 Oct 2026

Big law firms and lateral moves

Pay transparency at law firms: what the European directive requires and what Spain is preparing

Directive (EU) 2023/970 obliges companies, law firms included, to explain how they pay and to measure the pay gap between women and men. The Ministry of Labour has published a draft royal decree to transpose it in part. We summarise both texts.

Agente Lex Newsroom18 Oct 2026