EU Pay Transparency Directive: Intermediate

By Auren Institute

This course takes an HR Director or Reward Lead from awareness of the EU Pay Transparency Directive to operational delivery: designing a gender-neutral pay structure under Article 4, running a recruitment-stage transparency process under Article 5, calculating a gender pay gap and recognising a Joint Pay Assessment trigger, applying the burden-of-proof reversal under Article 18, and mapping a 12-month roadmap across Malta and a second EU jurisdiction.

  • 2 CPD hours
  • eLearning
  • Online, self-paced
  • About 2 hours, self-paced online
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About this course

This course takes an HR Director or Reward Lead from awareness of the EU Pay Transparency Directive to operational delivery: designing a gender-neutral pay structure under Article 4, running a recruitment-stage transparency process under Article 5, calculating a gender pay gap and recognising a Joint Pay Assessment trigger, applying the burden-of-proof reversal under Article 18, and mapping a 12-month roadmap across Malta and a second EU jurisdiction.

The course covers Article 4: structures that survive a tribunal, Job evaluation without the bias, Pay bands that survive a public listing, Reading the gap: mean, median, quartiles, Recruitment, retrained, When the burden shifts, Malta from the operator chair, and A 12-month roadmap, owners named. It is self-paced and online, ends with a short online assessment, and every learner who passes receives a certificate for 2 CPD hours.

It is designed for HR Directors, Heads of People, Reward Leads, in-house Employment Counsel, L&D Managers, and Compliance Officers with active responsibility for delivering the directive in 2026 to 2027.

What you will learn

  • Design or audit pay structures meeting the Article 4 gender-neutral criteria and document them defensibly
  • Build recruitment-stage transparency processes compliant with Article 5
  • Run gender pay-gap calculations using mean, median, and quartile distributions
  • Recognise Joint Pay Assessment triggers and your part in the assessment
  • Apply the Article 18 burden-of-proof reversal in equal-pay scenarios
  • Map a 12-month implementation roadmap for 100 to 250 employee employers

Course details

CPD hours
2
Format
eLearning
Delivery
Online, self-paced
Duration
About 2 hours, self-paced online
Language
English
Price
€200 per person

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