Pay Transparency Doesn’t Create Pay Problems. It Exposes Them with Tom Heys #234
Nick Day is joined on The Payroll Podcast by Tom Heys, Co-Lead of the EU Pay Transparency Directive Practice and Head of UK Gender Pay Gap Reporting at Lewis Silkin LLP.
Title: 🌟 Pay Transparency Doesn’t Create Pay Problems. It Exposes Them with Tom Heys #234 🌟
Host: 🎙️ Nick Day, CEO of specialist Payroll Recruitment Agency, JGA Recruitment Group
Guest: 👤 Tom Heys, Head of UK Gender Pay Gap Reporting
Episode Overview:
🔊 In this insightful episode of The Payroll Podcast, host Nick Day sits down with Tom Heys to go deep on the regulatory shift that is pulling payroll out of the back office and into the frontline of compliance, legal risk, and organizational strategy. The EU Pay Transparency Directive.
Key Topics Discussed in this Episode:
- Payroll Data as the Foundation of PTD Compliance: Tom explains why payroll data, not HR data, is the only true source of what employees actually receive and why it is the most critical data set for pay transparency reporting.
- The Hidden Data Quality Problem: Tom reveals how poor pay element labeling, missing audit trails, and disconnected HR and payroll systems create serious legal exposure before a PTD project even begins.
- The Real Consequences of Getting It Wrong: Tom outlines the escalating risks behind non-compliance, from regulatory fines to reputational damage, and ultimately the wave of costly equal pay claims the Directive is designed to make easier to bring.
- How the Directive Is Reshaping Recruitment: Tom breaks down the impact on hiring, including mandatory pay range disclosure, the ban on pay history questions, the end of pay secrecy clauses, and why a more structured approach to pay setting is now essential.
- Implementation Timelines and What They Mean for Multinationals: Tom unpacks the fragmented reality of PTD rollout across the EU, which countries are on track, which are delayed, and why many UK employers are voluntarily including themselves in PTD projects despite not being legally bound.
Useful Links From This Episode:
- 👤 Tom Heys LinkedIn Profile
- 🌳 Greenify Talent: JGA Planet Positive (ESG) Recruitment Solution
- 👤 Host Nick Day LinkedIn Profile
- 📢 JGA Payroll Recruitment
- 🎧 Check out our sister podcast, The HR L&D Podcast
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