EU Pay Trans­parency is a Ticking Bomb

The EU Pay Transparency Directive brings drastic new requirements for all employers starting mid-2026:

Extended disclosure rights, transparency and reporting obligations will soon affect not just companies with 200+ employees, but everyone. The risks include salary back payments, compensation claims, fines and more.

Hands-On to Full Compliance

Our Pay Transparency Masterplan combines the power of our digital modules with precisely tailored, implementation-focused live online training.Wiederholen

Pay Transparency: Implementation with live online training, templates, samples, and collaborative Q&A sessions
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"We already pay fairly and neutrally, so we're surely well prepared"

❌ Wrong. The burden of proof reversal makes adjusting processes, job evaluations, and salary assessments in line with EU requirements unavoidable. Those who sleep on this waste their head start and risk fines and back payments.

"Let's wait and see how the final, national implementation will look..."

❌ Big mistake! The key requirements won't change, and implementation is complex. Companies that wait until the last minute will inevitably face time crunch and subsequently lose valuable room for maneuvering.

(More on such common misconceptions in our HR & Legal Blog.)

The Pay Trans­parency Master­plan

Step by step to complete pay compliance

#1 – Designing Pay Structures with Legal Certainty

with RAin Christiane Milbradt, LL.M. (Münster Legal Experts)

  • Define equivalence criteria objectively and neutrally
  • Design job evaluation systems and pay bands with legal certainty
  • Identify comparison groups for equal and equivalent work

Outcome: Development of your own criteria based on a comprehensively annotated template

#2 – Analyzing Salaries and Resolving Inequalities

including ready-to-use calculation tool for comparison group analysis

  • Systematically calculate pay gaps and apply the 5% rule
  • Identify gender pay gaps and intersectional discrimination
  • Justify salary differences within comparison groups
  • Handle outliers that disproportionately distort comparison groups

Outcome: Understanding concrete back-payment risks, early correction of outliers

#3 – Q&A Session: Pay Structure Design
  • Experience sharing on analysis results and initial challenges
  • Discussion of legal gray areas
  • Preparation for the correction and implementation phase

Outcome: Deriving the right implementation steps from analyses, completing the exploration phase

#4 – Mastering Burden of Proof Reversal – Documentation and Legal Safety
  • Checklists for legally sound justifications of pay decisions
  • Handling critical employee inquiries and discrimination allegations
  • Template language and documentation templates for practical use

Outcome: Uniform documentation standards for legal certainty in disputes

#5 – New Leadership: Rules for Salary Negotiations & More
  • Align managers with objective pay criteria and procedures, ensure thorough documentation
  • Establish structured salary determination and replace discretionary practices
  • Professionally manage employee reactions to new transparency

Outcome: Concrete content that can be shared with leadership teams

#6 – Information and Disclosure Processes, Recruiting Compliance
  • Efficiently establish disclosure procedures and ensure 2-month deadlines
  • Systematically implement annual information obligations to employees
  • Design recruiting processes according to directive requirements

Outcome: Building operational processes with our templates, adapting workflows

#7 – Closing the Remaining Gaps: Legislative Updates
  • Discussion of design decisions made in the draft legislation
  • Establish structured salary determination and replace discretionary practices
  • Professionally manage employee reactions to new transparency

Outcome: Action items for implementing regulations specified in the legislative process

# 8 – Q&A Session: Last Questions Before Go-Live
  • Open forum for all unresolved questions about EU pay transparency
  • Experience sharing regarding initial employee feedback
  • Final tips and guidance before the deadline

Outcome: Timely solutions to remaining questions, full compliance by June 7, 2026

#9 – Establishing Efficient Reporting Processes
  • Transform existing pay evaluations into reports
  • Examples and templates for quick implementation in your context

Outcome: Template reports and methods for report creation and submission

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While other companies are still puzzling over back-payment risks, you're already set to go: Our roadmap reliably avoids all pitfalls of the upcoming EU pay transparency.

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