Module · Pay transparency
The reporting is a read, not a project.
Directive (EU) 2023/970 turns three questions you could previously decline to answer into obligations: how pay is set, what people doing equal work earn, and what the gap between men and women is. LadderHub already holds the salaries, the positions and the bands — this is the reading of them the law asks for.
Categories of work you already defined
The directive compares people doing work of equal value. If you have already built a band group per job family and a rank per level, you have said what those groups are — so LadderHub derives the categories rather than asking you to draw them up a second time.
- Categories derived from band group and rank — no second structure to maintain
- They cannot drift from the pay structure they describe, because they are it
- People with no band or rank land in Unclassified — never quietly out of the count
- Whether you owe a report at all is worked out per legal entity, since the entity files
Dated criteria, not overwritten ones
Article 6 asks how pay is set. The four answers — how often pay is reviewed, what triggers an increase, how the market is read, and what you say about neutrality — are filed with an effective date, the way every other set of terms here is.
- An answer given in March stays explainable in December
- Half-answered is an ordinary state the dashboard reports, not an error
- Segregated categories and cross-group gaps are surfaced as things to justify, never as failures
- Under 100 people and you owe nothing — LadderHub says so plainly instead of inventing work
A report that freezes its subjects
Building a report writes a receipt per employment relationship — the pay, the hours, the category, which sex it was counted as, and why it was excluded if it was — and never recomputes them. The nine metrics fold out of those receipts on read.
- A filed figure is still explainable two years later, after salaries moved and bands were redrawn
- Payroll actuals are imported per year and reconciled — a bonus is a divergence, not a data error
- The population is read as it stood at the end of the reporting year, not the day you built it
- A Dutch template renders provisionally and says so, because the regeling behind it is still draft
Article 7
Everybody may ask what their category pays
The directive gives every employee the right to their own pay and the average for their category of work, broken down by sex — and the right to be told annually that they may ask.
Withheld below three
The average appears only with at least three people in the category and three of each sex. Over two people, an average is one person's salary with an extra step.
The notice writes no rows
The annual reminder rides the inbox: it appears while unread, disappears when dismissed, and comes back the following year.
Sex is what the report counts
Somebody recording their gender as Other elects for themselves how they are counted — self-declared, never set by an administrator.