The EU Pay Transparency Directive (EUPTD) is reshaping how organizations manage and communicate pay fairness across Europe. To help employers prepare, Highberg conducted a benchmark study among 112 large organizations in the Netherlands, Europe, and beyond.
This report provides key insights into: levels of organizational readiness and compliance, main challenges and opportunities of the EUPTD and practical steps to achieve sustainable compliance.
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Equal pay for equal work, pay equity, wage equality, pay gap, pay fairness, wage parity – these terms all refer to the same fundamental issue. At its core, the goal is to ensure that people performing the same work are paid equally, regardless of their background or other characteristics, and that companies can demonstrate this equality. In the Netherlands, the term "characteristic" typically refers to gender (male/female). However, in other countries, this type of analysis is also applied to other diversity factors, such as ethnicity or nationality. As the Netherlands follows pioneers like the US and the UK in this field, it is expected that the focus on pay equality will expand over time to include other diversity dimensions.
Within Highberg we look at the topic of Equal pay from both an organizational and a legal perspective, but also through a methodological lens. After all, People Analytics is one of our expertise. There is not one way to Rome, and the same counts for doing an Equal Pay analysis. But you might ask yourself which methodologies are available, what benefits or disadvantages they have, and the ultimate question: which method to choose? In this blog series we will explore just that. We will explore the different Equal pay methods we have seen in our field of work, the pros and cons of each, and which one we prefer. But, before we deep dive into the details, why do you even need a "method" when working on Equal pay?
After a growth spurt, software company CaseWare Netherlands decided to start working agile with the entire organization. That called for a new job and salary house. It took some getting used to for the employees of CaseWare, which develops and implements accounting software. Last year they all started working agile, after the software developers took the lead with the scrum methodology.