Andorra la VellaGovernment has deployed, via the Regulation of the Public Registry of data and indicators on the professional gender gap, Law 6/2022 for the effective application of the right to equal treatment and opportunities and non-discrimination between women and men. Companies must enter the data corresponding to 2023 through the Government’s electronic headquarters between May 1 and June 30. From 2025, however, salary data corresponding to the previous year must be provided annually before March 31. While companies with 50 or more workers will have to submit more comprehensive information, the rest of the companies with smaller workforces will only have to keep an annual record that includes the comparative average annual global remuneration between men and women, and the difference in remuneration by age group and professional group.
The data entered in the Register must be used by companies to diagnose their situation and include in the equality plans the measures to correct the detected gap. The Government will deal with the indicators obtained through the Department of Statistics, and may compare them with other states or sources, such as surveys and studies on the gap. Public registry of equality plans.
The Government, in parallel, has also created the Public Register of equality plans. In this case, as established in article 57 of Law 6/2022, companies with 50 or more employees are required to develop their equality plans, which must be valid for a maximum of 4 years, and promote the necessary measures to eliminate direct and indirect discrimination between women and men in access to employment and in other working conditions, including the termination of the contract.
For companies with fewer than 50 workers, equality plans are voluntary. The equality plans corresponding to the year 2023 must be registered, through the Government’s electronic headquarters using the digital certificate, from May 1, 2024 and until October 1, 2024. 2024. The Department of Labor estimates that around 150 companies will be in a position to register equality plans.
