One Program · 20 Working Days

Training
program for change

A structured four-week program — twenty working days — to move from diagnosis to lasting change. Built around your data, your managers, and your regulatory reality.

Designed for leaders, managers, and HR specialists. Each program helps you build a professional identity grounded in care for workplace communication and social responsibility as an employer.

This page is maintained by Poemwork and describes how our program supports EU standards. It is not an independent certification.

Program 01

Pay Equity& transparency

Close the gap. Show your work.

Pay Equity & transparency

A 20-day program to move from suspected disparity to a defensible, transparent pay architecture aligned with the EU Pay Transparency Directive.

Main goal

Eliminate unexplained pay gaps and give every employee a clear, defensible answer to the question: how is my pay decided?

What it covers

This program helps leaders understand whether pay differences are explainable, defensible, and fair, using your own payroll and role data. It separates visible pay gaps from the structural causes underneath: role design, job leveling, hiring offers, bonuses, and manager discretion.

You will build objective criteria for how jobs are valued and how salary bands are set, giving managers a consistent way to explain decisions. The process identifies outliers and models the cost and sequencing of adjustments, so pay equity becomes a planned investment rather than a surprise.

The final output is a pay-equity dashboard, a remediation plan, and a governance rhythm for ongoing review. It is especially useful before reporting cycles, restructuring, rapid growth, or the introduction of a new job architecture.

Key benefits
  • ✓Auditable pay-gap analysis across gender, role, and tenure
  • ✓Job architecture mapped to objective, gender-neutral criteria
  • ✓Manager toolkit for transparent pay conversations
  • ✓Reporting pack ready for ESRS S1 disclosure
Enrollment
1 200,00 €per organization · incl. VAT
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Compliance & Information Security

EU social responsibility, by design.

Every program is mapped to the European standards your auditors, regulators, and works councils already recognize — so the work you do here becomes evidence of ethical leadership and social responsibility.

EU Standards →

CSRD / ESRS S1

Own-workforce disclosure

The program maps to the social pillar of the EU Sustainability Reporting Standards, so participation becomes evidence for your annual report.

EU 2023/970

Pay Transparency Directive

Methodology aligned with the directive's joint pay-assessment and equal-pay-for-equal-work obligations ahead of the 2026 deadline.

GDPR

No personal data required

We never ingest employee, payroll, or HR records. You stay the controller of your own data — the only commitment is to follow the program.

ISO 27001 aligned

Information security

EU-hosted infrastructure, encryption in transit and at rest, role-based access, row-level security, and a tamper-evident audit log.

OECD Guidelines

Ethical leadership

Grounded in OECD responsible-business-conduct principles and EU equal-treatment directives across hiring, promotion, and pay.

Shared responsibility

You stay in control

Poemwork supplies the framework, training, and standards mapping. Your organization decides what to apply and retains all operational data.

Ready to begin?twenty days from now

The program is delivered with your HR team, tailored to your data and regulatory scope, and handed over with the dashboards to sustain it.

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