Pay Transparency: How to Build a Compliant and Sustainable Strategy
Implementing pay transparency can feel like a challenge.
Maintaining confidentiality within smaller employee groups takes care, and building a watertight, audit-ready strategy without a dedicated team may feel overwhelming.
Watch pay transparency experts Rachel Gibbs (Merities Consulting) and Gudrun Thorgeirsdottir (beqom) for an actionable, live session designed to take the stress out of compliance. Whether you're starting from scratch or refining an existing framework, you'll learn how to build a scalable strategy you can stand behind with confidence.
Pay transparency isn't about doing everything overnight—it’s about nailing the fundamentals and avoiding costly pitfalls.
What you'll learn:
- Where to start, for those at the beginning of their pay transparency journeys.
- How to build a structure you can update over time and stand behind.
- How to protect confidentiality in smaller teams, even before job classification is in place.
- The must-do minimum requirements to ensure your organization is compliant.
- Common pitfalls to avoid, and why documentation is worth the effort from day one.
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About our speakers
Rachel Gibbs
Rachel has specialized in compensation and benefits throughout her career and founded Merities Consulting to help organizations navigate the evolving landscape of pay transparency. She works with organizations to create fair, transparent pay practices that meet compliance requirements while maximizing the value of their investment in reward. Rachel’s approach is practical and commercially focused, helping employers simplify the complexity of pay transparency and create better outcomes for both employees and organizations.
Gudrun Thorgeirsdottir
Gudrun Thorgeirsdottir is passionate about helping global organizations achieve fair pay, with years of experience guiding the implementation of efficient data-driven SaaS solutions to drive pay equity and ensure compliance with global regulations. Prior to co-founding PayAnalytics by beqom, she has held leadership roles as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Risk Officer. Gudrun also brings extensive board experience, having served on multiple boards in the insurance, banking, retail, and financial sectors.
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