Navigate the complexities of the new Pay Transparency Directive with our one-day seminar. We’ll equip you with practical strategies to understand your obligations, avoid pitfalls, and proactively prepare your organisation.
Pay transparency – it pays to be prepared
Why should you attend?
The Pay Transparency Directive, which will impact every business, must be transposed into law by 7 June 2026. It will introduce onerous obligations on employers to be transparent as regards pay and pay progression and places greater gender pay gap reporting obligations on employers including the requirement to report on categories of workers, namely those performing the same work or work of equal value. Should a gender pay gap of over 5% exist in any ‘category of worker’ which cannot be justified by objective, gender neutral criteria and has not been remedied within 6 months, a joint pay assessment will need to be conducted with workers’ representatives in order to identify, remedy and prevent differences in pay.
The Directive gives employees the right to request pay information on the average pay levels, broken down by gender, for categories of workers performing the same work or work of equal value, which must be furnished to the employee within 2 months of the request. Employers will need to categorise their employees based on who is doing the same work or work of equal value and be able to justify any differences in pay on objective, gender neutral criteria. We will see the introduction of significant new information and consultation rights for workers’ representatives and new restrictions on certain HR practices pre-employment and new measures on confidentiality and pay secrecy.
With the Directive shifting the burden of proof to an employer in equal pay claims and allowing for a hypothetical comparator, where no real-life comparator can be established, we are about to see significant changes to the Employment Equality Act 1998, as amended, and our equal pay landscape.
Is your organisation prepared?
What will you learn?
Given the implications of the Directive, organisations need to start getting prepared. In our one day pay transparency seminar, we will examine the impact of the Directive, what your obligations are and how to start getting your house in order. We will discuss job evaluations, pay progression criteria and the pitfalls to avoid in determining work of equal value.
Our team of experts will also examine the potential industrial relations implications for your organisation arising from these significant new pay transparency obligations. We will delve into equal pay cases to date, examine the lessons learned and discuss the changes the Directive will bring to our equal pay legislation. We will provide practical advice and guidance on how best to meet the challenges of the Directive.
Who should attend?
It will be of considerable interest and relevance to employment law practitioners, employers, HR managers, remuneration and reward managers and those who advise them.
Seminar speaker(s) will be announced in due course.
Training Provider: IBEC
Cost: €460 per person (non-members)
✅ Discount: South West Gnó Skillnet members receive partial funding, reducing the cost to €200 per person.
