Coffee Talks
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EU Pay Transparency: What’s in the Directive – and How This Series Works
The EU Pay Transparency Directive is no longer a distant policy topic. It is a practical implementation challenge that employers across the EU need to address now. This opening article introduces FPI’s Coffee Talk Special mini-series and explains how the upcoming pieces are designed to help organizations move from general awareness to structured action. The…
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Pay Structures – Building the Foundation for Transparency
In this Coffee Talk Special, Henrike von Platen speaks with Lea Lønsted, Head of Rewards Transformation at Danske Bank and a long-standing member of the FPI Screening Board, about a question that is often treated as technical, but is in fact foundational: what a pay structure is, what it must contain, and why it cannot…
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Job Ads & Pay Ranges – Setting Fair & Consistent Bands
In this Coffee Talk Special, Henrike von Platen speaks with Margrét Vilborg Bjarnadóttir, compensation researcher and expert on pay transparency developments, about what published pay ranges in job advertisements mean once pay information becomes a visible signal in the labor market. The discussion centers on a basic but often unresolved question: what exactly is a…
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Internal Pay Transparency – Rights, Data & Smart Responses
In this Coffee Talk Special, Henrike von Platen speaks with Margrét Vilborg Bjarnadóttir, Associate Professor of Management Science and Statistics at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, whose work includes data-driven research on pay equity. The discussion focuses on internal pay transparency under the EU Pay Transparency Directive and the governance…
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Total Compensation – Measuring Pay, Benefits & Data
In this Coffee Talk Special, Henrike von Platen speaks with Margrét Vilborg Bjarnadóttir, a specialist in pay equity and related reward analytics, about a question that has become increasingly relevant under the EU Pay Transparency Directive: what counts as total compensation. The discussion focuses on the directive’s broader compensation concept, the practical challenges of identifying…
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Fair Benefits – Beyond Base Pay
In this Coffee Talk, Henrike von Platen hosts an exchange with Tarciso Nogueira, Global Benefits leader at Henkel, whose background spans consulting, local HR leadership, global compensation, and international benefits governance. The conversation focuses on fair benefits as a substantive part of total compensation and on the conditions under which benefit design can support, or…
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External Reporting (Article 9) – What to Report & How to Prepare
In this Coffee Talk Special, Henrike von Platen speaks with Margrét Vilborg Bjarnadóttir about the reporting logic under Article 9 of the EU Pay Transparency Directive. The discussion focuses on which employers are covered, which data points must be reported, how the reporting timeline works, and why the reporting framework matters from a pay governance…
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Pay Equity & Article 10 – Remediation, Action & Impact
In this Coffee Talk Special, Henrike von Platen speaks with Margrét Vilborg Bjarnadóttir about pay equity and Article 10 of the EU Pay Transparency Directive, focusing on remediation, action, and organizational impact when pay gaps cannot be justified. The exchange begins with an important distinction that shapes the rest of the discussion. As Margrét explains,…