Date: 10 March 2025; 17 September 2025.
Location: Your PC via Zoom.
Duration: One day, 7 hours (including breaks), 9am-4pm (UK).
Fees: £495 + VAT per delegate.
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Despite some recent high-profile retreats on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) more widely, pay transparency suddenly seems to have leapt to the top of HR, reward and diversity leaders agendas.
This has been heavily driven by legislative requirements, initially in North America (and now evident in a majority of States); and then in a demanding set of requirements in the EU Pay Transparency directive (with the three-year local transposition and implementation timescale already halfway through); and reflected more widely globally.
But how should employers and HR functions respond? Despite the UK Labour governments ’s proposed extension of gender pay gap reporting and equal pay requirements to cover ethnicity and disability, the recent history in the UK has been towards less not more transparency: why?
And just why is pay transparency and wider considerations of pay fairness and all of the factors affecting them important, when UK HR departments and their employment lawyers have spent most of the last 20 years making their pay and contractual arrangements more confidential and opaque rather than transparent?
Taking a broad systemic but also practical perspective, this intensive one-day training programme will help you to consider all of the key dimensions of pay transparency and fairness as a vital part of your people, reward and DEI strategies. It will enable you to plan and enact policies which enhance the benefits and address the risks of pay transparency; and move you on a journey to a fairer pay management approach which can genuinely enhance the perceptions and performance of your people.
- Highly interactive workshop, challenging you to think about and justify your current practices and plan and design improvements, going way beyond just legal compliance.
- The opportunity to review, digest and discuss the latest relevant research and survey content, combined with tools and techniques to help you to start and progress your journey towards open and transparent, enabling and engaging pay and reward policies and practices.
- The latest developments in terms of market practice and legislation on pay transparency and related areas of pay fairness: job evaluation and equal pay, pay gap reporting, paying for performance etc.
- Latest research on pay and reward fairness, its impact and the key influences on it.
- How to build a comprehensive and effective, fair and transparent pay and reward strategy.
- Most training programmes and information resources in this field are focused on specific aspects of transparency and fairness such as gender pay gaps, equal pay and job evaluation, executive pay, EU and pay transparency, etc.
- Somewhat ironically, when legal risks and considerations are often a key cause of pay secrecy, there is typically a strong legal compliance with new legislation focus.
- Yet beyond compliance, research highlights fairness is a slippery but crucially important concept, a broad perception, felt by your employees. It’s affected by many factors within and outside of your influence; and impacting their decisions to engage with you and perform (or walk out of the door!).
- This programme considers all of the key components and current trends on fairness – right across the pay and rewards space – so you can set and operate a broad and effective reward, fairness and communications strategy, rather than just reacting haphazardly to the latest piece of equality or pay transparency legislation.
Pay, reward and diversity leaders and professionals.
HR leaders and generalists with a particular interest in fair and transparent reward management.
Internal communications professionals.
HR academic and students.
There is no exam or qualification awarded.
£495.00 GBP (+ VAT) for first delegate. Contact E-reward for more information about our team discounts.
Each ticket covers attendance for one person only for the duration of this seven-hour course programme and includes course materials.
Please read our terms and conditions carefully as they contain important information.
Please note: while regular reference is made on the programme to employment law issues, the tutor is not an employment lawyer and so commentary in this area is indicative and suggestive. For specific actions in your own employer you should refer to specific employment law advice.
This class will be facilitated by Dr Duncan Brown, an independent reward researcher and adviser, Senior Associate at the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) and Visiting Professor at University of Greenwich. Duncan is a former employee reward practice leader at Willis Towers Watson, PwC and Aon Hewitt, who spent five years as the Deputy CEO at the CIPD.
He is a highly regarded adviser and writer on reward management, including jointly authoring with Michael Armstrong the best-selling Handbook of Reward Management Practice and Reward Strategy. His doctorate was in reward strategy.
Your PC via Zoom, live streamed.
Final course admin details will be emailed to delegates at least three weeks before the event.
| Virtual classroom | 10/03/2025 - 10/03/2025 |
| Virtual classroom | 17/09/2025 - 17/09/2025 |
Please read our terms and conditions carefully as they contain important information.
Please note: while regular reference is made on the programme to employment law issues, the tutor is not an employment lawyer and so commentary in this area is indicative and suggestive. For specific actions in your own employer you should refer to specific employment law advice.