No. The government proposal (including transposing legislation draft) is expected to be published and submitted to Parliament in week 28.

The Finnish government has originally proposed that the Directive would be implemented in accordance with minimum standards only, without additional or stricter requirements. However, the final position will be confirmed once the government proposal is published.

Please note that the government proposal may still be amended during the parliamentary process, and the final local legislation should be reviewed once enacted.

The date and content of the transposing legislation cannot yet be confirmed, as the government proposal has not been published. According to current estimates, it will be published and submitted to Parliament in week 28. However, given Parliament's summer recess, it is likely that the government proposal will be handled in September 2026 at the earliest. The transposing legislation will be published only after the parliamentary process has been completed.

Based on the draft government proposal, the local legislation is expected to primarily amend the Finnish Act on Equality between Women and Men (609/1986). The Equality Ombudsman is planned to be designated as the competent monitoring and enforcement authority.

The existing Finnish Act on Equality between Women and Men already contains provisions on gender pay equality, including obligations for employers with at least 30 employees to draw up gender equality plans, conduct regular pay surveys, and take corrective action where unjustified gender pay differences are identified. The transposing legislation is not intended to replace these existing obligations but rather to supplement them, introducing more detailed and targeted requirements.