For HR leaders navigating new reporting rules
What happens when the EU Pay Transparency Directive forces companies to report gender pay gaps by worker category, and the math starts flagging problems that may not exist? Labor economist Brian Levine and people analytics expert Helen Friedman of Merit Analytics explain how organizations are getting ahead of EU reporting requirements, why narrow worker categories can backfire under a fixed 5 percent threshold, and why job grades are often the more defensible way to group equal value work. The conversation also covers why pay equity is only one part of workplace equity, how career path choices and promotion decisions create long-term pay gaps, where AI actually helps in pay equity analysis, and how to find the root causes behind pay gaps that keep coming back year after year.