Pay transparency is emerging as one of the biggest HR initiatives of the coming years. With the transposition of the European Directive on pay transparency, all companies will have to thoroughly review their processes: recruitment, pay policy, job classification, internal communication, pay equity management…
To help organisations anticipate these new obligations, Althéa is providing a comprehensive, practical checklist, designed in collaboration with Septeo, an HR solutions publisher. It is a true guide to help structure your approach, reduce unjustified gaps and ensure compliance before 2027.
What the reform will change for your company
To comply with upcoming requirements, organisations will need to:
- Include a pay range in every job posting, to ensure fairness from the recruitment stage.
- Respond to employees’ requests for information regarding average or median pay levels by role and by gender.
- Objectively justify any pay difference between two employees in equivalent roles.
- Put in place monitoring indicators for pay gaps.
- Strengthen internal transparency without publishing individual salaries, by communicating the criteria and classifications.
These obligations require a robust organisation, reliable data and well-equipped HR governance — hence the importance of a clear action plan.
Why download our pay transparency checklist?
This checklist enables you to:
✔️ Assess your pay policy
Identify potential gaps, risk areas and improvement levers for pay equity between women and men.
✔️ Structure objective pay criteria
Responsibilities, skills, experience… define a transparent foundation for all pay decisions.
✔️ Anticipate upcoming legal obligations
Mandatory information in job postings, right of access to information, publication of indicators… prepare for the new rules.
✔️ Lay the foundations for a culture of transparency
Support your HR teams, managers and employees in adopting new reflexes and new practices.
✔️ Put in place sustainable pay equity governance
Regular monitoring, updating pay scales, checking gaps: establish long-term pay governance.
Want to go further? Join our dedicated webinar
To complement this checklist, Althéa and Septeo HR are hosting an exclusive webinar dedicated to pay transparency: “Pay transparency: understand, anticipate and get organised starting today”
On 11 December at 11:30 AM
With Magali Covain, Partner Director at Althéa
and Aymeric Baas, Alliance Manager at Septeo HR.
Agenda:
- Upcoming legal obligations and their impacts on your HR processes,
- Best practices to anticipate changes before 2027,
- An operational roadmap to structure your approach,
- The essential HR tools to manage pay equity over the long term.
Register now to attend the live session. And if you are not available? Registration will allow you to receive the replay as well as the checklist.
