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Employees increasingly demanding to know the rationale and mechanisms behind what they’re being paid.

The EU Pay Transparency Directive is more than a compliance exercise. WTW explores how forward-thinking organisations are turning it into a strategic advantage, building trust and driving pay equity.

The deadline passed earlier this month but the disparity it targets is still a long way from being righted.

When pay comparisons between colleagues don’t make sense, frustration builds, trust erode and the likelihood of employees moving on becomes a reality.

There are many challenges facing employers and HR departments but Secondsight’s Darren Laverty believes it all comes down to financial fragility.

What are the main talking points for employers from the speech last month?

For many organisations, the annual pay review still gets treated as a finishing line. However, in reality, it should be seen as more of a diagnostic checkpoint.

From AI disruption to rising expectations around pay transparency, the role of reward is becoming increasingly strategic. And amongst all this change, HR leaders are under mounting pressure to demonstrate business impact and ROI on benefits investment.

As the government moves ahead with ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting, organisations face both a challenge and an opportunity to improve fairness, build trust and strengthen productivity and performance, as Charles Cotton, senior reward and performance adviser at the CIPD explains. 

Technology is beginning to outpace people structures. REBA’s content director Jo Gallacher explains why benefits teams will increasingly find themselves playing a more central role.