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For General Counsel
Under Article 18 of the EU Directive, where Articles 5–10 are not met, the burden of proof in a pay-discrimination proceeding sits with the employer. Vareqa is the evidentiary record that meets that burden — every grade, override, policy version, and Article 7 response preserved.
Why it holds up
Article 4 satisfied by the REF™ methodology. Article 5 by the Pay Band Builder. Article 7 by the right-to-information report. Article 9 by the Pay Gap Calculator. Article 10 by the Joint Pay Assessment workflow. The same architecture extends to GCC nationalisation, US state laws, Japan's EEOA, and UK reporting.
Each role produces structured data from the same methodology — consistent in a way self-reported salary surveys can never be. Supports an anonymised benchmark layer (in development, subject to GDPR and competition-law review).
External legal opinion from an EU employment firm; third-party certification against a recognised pay-equity standard; a published, academically co-authored methodology paper. All in development.
Ranges publish on every advert, information requests arrive on 60-day deadlines, annual gap analyses recur, new roles need grading. Vareqa sits underneath as the system of record, with full version history.
How AI works in Vareqa
A score per factor with rationale and a confidence rating. You see exactly why it scored what it scored.
Accept where you agree, adjust where your judgement differs. The final grade is your decision, not the system's.
AI suggestion, your review, adjustments, and final grade — all timestamped. The complete story is there for a regulator or employee.
AI outputs are constrained to the published methodology. EU AI Act high-risk classification applies to AI-assisted grading; the practitioner-override model satisfies the human-oversight requirement.
The HR workflow, every market
Pay transparency is the same six jobs everywhere: assess, design, publish, respond, report, and defend. The laws differ by country; the workflow, and the Vareqa module behind each step, does not. Choose a step, then filter by jurisdiction to see the obligation and the output that satisfies it.
Defend. Hold the evidence the day the burden of proof shifts to you.
Every Article of the Directive walked through, with Vareqa fulfilment, residual employer work, and explicit scoping of what sits outside the platform. Built for General Counsel review.
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