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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,…
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Australia’s Fight for Fair Pay
Addressing Gender Inequality Despite various efforts to close the gender pay gap, disparities persist in Australia. We delve into the current state of the gender pay gap in Australia, drawing on insights from Natalie Flynn, CEO of Equidi and our first Australian FPI partner. Together, we are committed to making significant strides towards achieving gender…
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The most direct road to equality
Using Fair Pay! Workforce shortages, churn, too few women in management – many companies are meeting the many challenges in strategic HR policy with a plethora of measures and instruments. But…
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End negotiation seminars!
German Federal Labour Court takes a similar view Negotiating skills do not justify a higher salary, the German Federal Labor Court decided last week. A former employee of a Saxon metal company had filed a complaint. In the third instance, she was awarded her lost wages and compensation. Why this decision by the Federal Labour…
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FAIR PAY AS A STANDARD
The Study on the transferability of the Icelandic Equal Pay Standard ÍST85:2012 to Germany (or another country) was prepared by the FPI…
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Press Release: Quality seal for the quality seal
Fair Pay certification meets the highest requirements Berlin – The UNIVERSAL FAIR PAY CHECK has been recognized by the European Trademarks Office as an EU certification mark. The certification process with which the Berlin-based, non-profit Fair Pay Innovation Lab (FPI) has been certifying companies around the world for fair pay since 2021 has been awarded…
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On our own account: Our first statement for the United Nations
or why fair pay also saves polar bears – by Katinka Brose Since its founding, FPI has focused on international work – as one of the first members in the Equal Pay International Coalition, the long-standing engagement with the annual United Nations Commission on the Status of Women Rights in New York, or the international…
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Enough of the expensive certification chaos
There are many ways and means to certify pay strategies and achieve recognition for Fair Pay. But until now, none of today’s auditing procedures fully covered the entire range of possibilities. What’s more frustrating is the fact that even companies with the very best of intentions find they’re unable to demonstrate their compliance. Yet all…
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The 10 most impressive domino effects of Fair Pay
How companies save money with Fair Pay When it comes to Fair Pay, we often encounter the same misconceptions. For example, adjusting salaries is much too expensive for a company, whereas in fact, the opposite is true! Fair Pay has an immensely positive effect on all aspects of the business – from appreciation to motivation.…
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Getting equal slices of the cake
FAIR PAY IN SWEDEN In Sweden, as in so many Scandinavian countries, everything seems to work much better than elsewhere. But what are things really like in the land of wooden chalets, elks and the Northern Lights? Are Swedish men and women paid more fairly? Annika von Redwitz, an expert on Sweden and diversity, has…
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Press Release for the 1st Universal Fair Pay Check Awards
1st Universal Fair Pay Check Awards – Companies awarded for fair pay for the first time Berlin – The non-profit Fair Pay Innovation Lab (FPI) is awarding companies for fair pay for the first time. Regardless of size, location, or respective legislation, companies can close existing pay gaps in the shortest possible time and have…
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LET’S TALK ABOUT MONEY, HONEY!
FAIR PAY IN THE USA “What do you earn?” In the USA, this is not a taboo question, but quite appropriate for small talk. But does dealing with the subject of money openly have any effect on fairer pay in companies? On the occasion of the 64th Session of the Commission on the Status of…