Czech employers with 150+ staff would have to redesign how they set pay under a new law

Czechia is late on the EU rules, and its draft would make every employer set pay by a written system.iuslaboris.comCzech transposition of the Pay Transparency Directive (another site)Law-firm analysis of the MPSV draft: effective 1 Jan 2027, most duties from 1 Jan 2028, and pay-gap reports for employers with 150+ staff first due 30 April 2028. Czechia missed the June 2026 transposition deadline.Regulation · Applicants would learn the minimum pay, and firms with 150+ staff would report their pay gap by April 2028.iuslaboris.comCzech transposition of the Pay Transparency Directive (another site)Law-firm analysis of the MPSV draft: effective 1 Jan 2027, most duties from 1 Jan 2028, and pay-gap reports for employers with 150+ staff first due 30 April 2028. Czechia missed the June 2026 transposition deadline.Regulation ·

Good for Someone who knows HR and payroll and can sell to larger employers.

Draft law Czech pay transparency law, still a draft.iuslaboris.comCzech transposition of the Pay Transparency Directive (another site)Law-firm analysis of the MPSV draft: effective 1 Jan 2027, most duties from 1 Jan 2028, and pay-gap reports for employers with 150+ staff first due 30 April 2028. Czechia missed the June 2026 transposition deadline.Regulation · Based on a law that is not passed yet, so this may change.

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The opportunity

0/2 · Unclear pain

A draft Czech law would make every employer set pay by a written system, and larger ones report their gender pay gap.iuslaboris.comCzech transposition of the Pay Transparency Directive (another site)Law-firm analysis of the MPSV draft: effective 1 Jan 2027, most duties from 1 Jan 2028, and pay-gap reports for employers with 150+ staff first due 30 April 2028. Czechia missed the June 2026 transposition deadline.Regulation ·

  • Every employer would need a written pay system grouping jobs by their value.iuslaboris.comCzech transposition of the Pay Transparency Directive (another site)Law-firm analysis of the MPSV draft: effective 1 Jan 2027, most duties from 1 Jan 2028, and pay-gap reports for employers with 150+ staff first due 30 April 2028. Czechia missed the June 2026 transposition deadline.Regulation ·
  • Firms with 150 or more staff would report their gender pay gap.iuslaboris.comCzech transposition of the Pay Transparency Directive (another site)Law-firm analysis of the MPSV draft: effective 1 Jan 2027, most duties from 1 Jan 2028, and pay-gap reports for employers with 150+ staff first due 30 April 2028. Czechia missed the June 2026 transposition deadline.Regulation ·
  • Job applicants would be told the minimum pay before they are hired.iuslaboris.comCzech transposition of the Pay Transparency Directive (another site)Law-firm analysis of the MPSV draft: effective 1 Jan 2027, most duties from 1 Jan 2028, and pay-gap reports for employers with 150+ staff first due 30 April 2028. Czechia missed the June 2026 transposition deadline.Regulation ·

Suggested solution

Build software that reads a company's payroll export and produces the pay-gap report the draft law would require.

Why now

1/3 · Soft deadline

Employers would have to rebuild how they set pay from January 2027, and firms with 150+ staff would report by April 2028.iuslaboris.comCzech transposition of the Pay Transparency Directive (another site)Law-firm analysis of the MPSV draft: effective 1 Jan 2027, most duties from 1 Jan 2028, and pay-gap reports for employers with 150+ staff first due 30 April 2028. Czechia missed the June 2026 transposition deadline.Regulation ·

  • Personnel teams would sort every job into groups by its value.iuslaboris.comCzech transposition of the Pay Transparency Directive (another site)Law-firm analysis of the MPSV draft: effective 1 Jan 2027, most duties from 1 Jan 2028, and pay-gap reports for employers with 150+ staff first due 30 April 2028. Czechia missed the June 2026 transposition deadline.Regulation ·
  • Lacking a written pay system could cost an employer up to CZK 1M.iuslaboris.comCzech transposition of the Pay Transparency Directive (another site)Law-firm analysis of the MPSV draft: effective 1 Jan 2027, most duties from 1 Jan 2028, and pay-gap reports for employers with 150+ staff first due 30 April 2028. Czechia missed the June 2026 transposition deadline.Regulation ·
  • Firms that wait for the final law get only months before it starts.iuslaboris.comCzech transposition of the Pay Transparency Directive (another site)Law-firm analysis of the MPSV draft: effective 1 Jan 2027, most duties from 1 Jan 2028, and pay-gap reports for employers with 150+ staff first due 30 April 2028. Czechia missed the June 2026 transposition deadline.Regulation ·

Willing to pay

2/2 · Clear signs

Some Czech employers already pay specialists to calculate their pay gap from payroll data, before the law has passed.Registr smluvsmlouvy.gov.czRegistr smluv — employers paying for pay-gap analysis, 2025 to 2026 (another site)The public contracts register shows Czech employers paying consultants and a software seller to calculate their pay gap from payroll data, and the labour ministry paying for audits that employers get free.Contract ·

  • Two universities, a hospital and a water company bought pay-gap calculations in 2026.Registr smluvsmlouvy.gov.czRegistr smluv — employers paying for pay-gap analysis, 2025 to 2026 (another site)The public contracts register shows Czech employers paying consultants and a software seller to calculate their pay gap from payroll data, and the labour ministry paying for audits that employers get free.Contract ·
  • The labour ministry pays for 30 equal-pay audits that employers get free.Registr smluvsmlouvy.gov.czRegistr smluv — employers paying for pay-gap analysis, 2025 to 2026 (another site)The public contracts register shows Czech employers paying consultants and a software seller to calculate their pay gap from payroll data, and the labour ministry paying for audits that employers get free.Contract ·
  • Czech pay-grading and pay-gap tools sell at a yearly list price.Market checkmanazerodmenovani.czCzech pay-equity tooling scan (another site)Czech pay-equity products already exist: TREXIMA's job-grading and wage-benchmarking tool at 79,000 CZK a year, which listed a gender pay-gap report, Nakladatelství FORUM's equal-pay app at 8,499 CZK a year, and the labour ministry's free Logib audit.Market check ·

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Validated abroad

3/3 · Proven in 2+ markets

Three foreign firms, in France, Iceland and the US, already sell the pay analysis these rules would force on Czech employers.figures.hrFigures (another site)French compensation-benchmarking and EU pay-transparency tooling sold across Europe — with PayAnalytics and Syndio, the template for what this product looks like when it works.Company abroad ·

Where it works: FR, IS, US — home market CZFRCZUS
  1. Figures (another site)Based in France
  2. PayAnalytics (another site)Based in Iceland · not on the map
  3. Syndio (another site)Based in United States

Market gap

0/2 · Crowded

The Czech field is taken: two established sellers offer pay-gap analysis, two newer ones sell it too, and the state gives audits away.2 sourcesMarket checkmanazerodmenovani.czCzech pay-equity tooling scan (another site)Czech pay-equity products already exist: TREXIMA's job-grading and wage-benchmarking tool at 79,000 CZK a year, which listed a gender pay-gap report, Nakladatelství FORUM's equal-pay app at 8,499 CZK a year,…Market check · Registr smluvsmlouvy.gov.czRegistr smluv — employers paying for pay-gap analysis, 2025 to 2026 (another site)The public contracts register shows Czech employers paying consultants and a software seller to calculate their pay gap from payroll data, and the labour ministry paying for audits that employers get free.Contract ·

New, selling this: Greenometer (since 2026), Nakladatelství FORUM (Spolehlivé řízení rovného odměňování) (since 2026). Established, selling this: TREXIMA (Manažer odměňování) (since 1991), Sloneek (since 2019). New, selling something nearby: nobody on file. Established, selling something nearby: nobody on file.

Execution difficulty

2/3 · Moderate

Makes it easier

  • No licence is needed.
  • The product reads an ordinary payroll export.
  • It can start without outside money.

Makes it harder

  • The law is still a draft.
  • The buyers are employers with 150 or more staff.
  • Two established Czech sellers already sell pay-gap analysis.