With the Pay Transparency Directive (‘PTD‘) and AI Act on the horizon, are European employers unprepared for the changes to come?
Littler’s recent European Employer Survey Report dives into how European employers are preparing for these changes.
EU AI Act
Our recent European Employer Survey Report found that ‘only 40% of employers are conducting training, while just 34% are conducting internal audits or risk assessments of AI use.’
“It’s more critical than ever that businesses identify their obligations, audit their current exposure, conduct training, and assign a cross-functional task force to oversee these efforts” – highlights Deborah Margolis, a Senior Counsel at Littler.
EU Pay Transparency Directive
The upcoming PTD will introduce new obligations for employers, including producing gender pay pay reports.
“Nicola James, Littler Partner, UK, said now is the time for employers to take fundamental steps in preparing for the pay transparency directive.”
Nicola add that these steps include “conducting an audit of current pay practices, stress testing your job architecture to understand to what extent it is based on gender neutral criteria, and determining how you will categorise which workers are doing work of equal value.”
