From principle to practice: the European Commission and European Institute for Gender Equality have launched the updated EU-wide guidelines on gender-neutral job evaluation and classification to help organisations ensure equal pay for work of equal value between women and men. This ultimately supports talent attraction and retention and boosts competitiveness.
The EU’s gender pay gap stands at over 11%. While this headline number is well known, what drives it is less visible.
Too often, it is buried inside a job evaluation system that can carry historical patterns and never questions its own assumptions.
The updated EU-wide guidelines, designed as a step-by-step toolkit, offer a practical guide to understanding the worth of each role in your organisation, and spotting and correcting the gender biases that often go unseen.
The toolkit then provides a roadmap to building pay structures that respect equal pay for equal work or work of equal value between women and men.
This toolkit helps organisations across the EU carry out gender-neutral job evaluation and classification. It sets out practical steps to ensure jobs are assessed using objective, gender-neutral criteria. These criteria – known as ‘factors’ – include skills, responsibility, effort and working conditions.
Designed for all employers, the toolkit supports micro-organisations, small and medium-sized organisations, and large organisations alike.
More information is available here.
