Directive 2023/970 · zákon č. 76/2026 Z. z.

Nobody hands you a compliant methodology.

So we build yours — and it holds up when someone asks.

Two new statutory duties, not one

  • The annual report to the Ministry of Labour
  • Answers to employee pay-information requests

Built for every level of user

  • Executive summary for the board
  • Scorecards and detail for the HR team

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Pay transparency — 2026 reporting period

1 Aug – 31 Dec 2026 268 employees Published 31 Aug 2026
Employees

268

126 F / 142 M
Unexplained gap

3.8%

company level
Categories over threshold

2

of 6 · 64 people
Cost to close

€39,780

annualised
Distribution across pay quartiles Share of women in each pay quartile
29% Q4 highest pay
43% Q3
55% Q2
62% Q1 lowest pay
Women Men
Where the gap comes from Breakdown of the raw mean gap
Raw mean gap 11.4%
grade mix 4.1pp tenure 2.6pp hours 0.9pp unexplained 3.8%
Explained 7.6pp Unexplained 3.8% Joint pay assessment trigger 5%
What the law actually asks for

Five factors, not the four everyone built for.

Complexity Responsibility Effort Working conditions Soft skills

§ 3(1) puts mäkké zručnosti — social and communication ability — alongside the four the directive names. A job evaluation built on the EIGE four-factor toolkit does not meet the Slovak text.

01 · What you get

Seven figures, and the evidence behind every one of them.

The report the Ministry of Labour expects, produced from your own pay data rather than assembled by hand in the spring.

Every figure traces back to a source system — payroll, HR master, job evaluation. Nothing is keyed in twice, and nothing is a number somebody remembers agreeing.

That traceability is not presentation. It is what lets you answer the question that follows the filing.

§ 8 report · period 1 Aug – 31 Dec 2026

The seven figures, computed.

1

Gender pay gap — mean

Ordinary salary, all employees

11.4%
2

Gender pay gap — median

Ordinary salary, all employees

9.2%
3

Gap in variable components — mean

Bonus, commission, allowances

21.7%
4

Gap in variable components — median

Bonus, commission, allowances

18.0%
5

Share receiving variable components

Men / women

74% / 61%
6

Distribution across pay quartiles

Q1 lowest → Q4 highest, share of women

62 · 55 · 43 · 29%
7

Gap by category of worker

Six categories of equal work or work of equal value

2 above 5%

Every figure traces to source: payroll, HR master, job evaluation. Nothing is keyed in twice. Illustrative — a 268-person employer.

A number you can trace is a number you can defend. That is the difference between a report and a filing.

02 · The second obligation

The filing is annual. The employee's question arrives whenever it arrives.

An employee has the right to ask how their pay compares with colleagues doing comparable work. That right does not end when the report is filed — it stands.

GenEq answers it from the same model: their pay against the median, quartile and range of their peer group, at grade, cluster or category level. The non-disclosure rule at § 6(1)(b) is built in — a peer group that would reveal a specific colleague’s pay is not shown.

Requests are logged, so you know what was asked, when, and what was answered.

Answering a request under § 6

One page per employee, off the model that files the report.

Employee #1184 Senior account manager · Sales

Peer group: S4 · 9 people

€25,400
min €23,600 median €26,800 max €31,400
Compa-ratio

0.95

Percentile

22nd

Against the median

−5.2%

Peers can be read at grade, cluster or category level, because the right comparison depends on what is being asked. Illustrative.

The answer an employee gets and the figure you file come out of one model, so they cannot contradict each other.

03 · Why it takes building

There is no implementing decree. The methodology is yours.

Which means it has to be built to be defended, not built to be filed.

§ 14(4) obliges the Ministry to develop analytical tools and methodologies. That is guidance, not binding regulation — nobody is going to hand you a compliant template, and there is no safe harbour in following one.

And the Slovak text is not the directive. § 3(1) puts soft skills — social and communication ability — alongside complexity, responsibility, effort and working conditions. A job evaluation built on the EIGE four-factor toolkit does not meet it. Anyone who bought the off-the-shelf answer already has a gap in their defence.

The dates are the other half of it. Pay structures were due on 31 July 2026, and the first reporting period is running now.

Zákon č. 76/2026 Z. z. · employer with 150+ employees

The obligation, dated.

7 Jun 2026

Act in force

Pay ranges in job advertisements, no questions about pay history, gender-neutral job titles

In force
31 Jul 2026

Pay structures due

Aligned to the statutory evaluation criteria: complexity, responsibility, effort, working conditions — and soft skills, which the directive does not name

Passed
1 Aug 2026

First reporting period begins

The first report covers 1 August to 31 December 2026

Running
7 Jun 2027

First report to the Ministry of Labour

Seven prescribed figures, for employers with 150 employees or more

Ahead
15 Apr 2028

Annual cycle begins

250 and above report every year on the full preceding calendar year; 150 to 249 report every three years. A different deadline and a different period from the first report

Ahead

Verified against the published text of the act, 29 August 2026. Legal interpretation rests with your counsel.

There is no template to fall back on, so the quality of the methodology is the quality of the defence.

04 · What we build with you

A job evaluation, categories you can justify, and a model that produces the figures.

The job evaluation. All five statutory factors, applied consistently across every role, with the reasoning written down.

The categories. Groups of equal work or work of equal value, drawn on that evaluation — and defensible, because the categories are where the reporting either holds or falls apart.

The governed model. Pay, grade, tenure, hours and entity reconciled into one model that produces the seven figures as an output. Not a spreadsheet somebody rebuilds each year.

The documentation. What was decided, on what basis, by whom. This is the part that matters if the methodology is ever questioned, and the part nobody has when the report was assembled by hand.

How it is built

One model, from payroll to the filing.

Outputs derived, never assembled
§ 8 ministerial reportCategory analysisCost to closeAnswer to an employee question
Governed model one definition per measure
Dimensions
EmployeeJob & evaluation scoreCategory of workGradeEntityPeriod
Measures
Base payVariable payFTE & hoursRaw gapExplained gapUnexplained gap
Sources read-only
PayrollHR masterJob evaluationTime & attendance

Read-only by default. The model sits in the client's own environment, and the evaluation scores are an input to it — which is what makes a category defensible.

The report is due once a year. The questions arrive whenever someone asks — so this is a model you keep.

05 · What the figures tell you

Pay is usually fair inside a band. The gap comes from who is in which band.

The two figures that are visual say more than the five that are not.

Once you can see the distribution, the mean gap stops being a single frightening number and becomes two ordinary management questions: who gets promoted into the upper quartiles, and who is put forward for variable pay.

Those have answers. They are not payroll errors, and they are not fixed by adjusting salaries at random.

Figures 5 and 6, drawn

The shape underneath the seven figures.

Distribution across pay quartiles
Q4highest pay 29% 71%
Q3 43% 57%
Q2 55% 45%
Q1lowest pay 62% 38%
Women — 126 Men — 142
Share receiving variable components
Men 74%
Women 61%

Quartiles are the employer's own pay distribution, split into four equal bands by headcount. Illustrative.

Progression and reward are management decisions. The pay gap is what those decisions add up to.

06 · Why the headline is not the answer

The company number can pass while two categories do not.

Reporting is by category of worker, not by company. An employer who looks only at the top-line figure can file a number that passes and still be sitting on categories that breach.

In the illustration, two categories carrying 64 people sit above the threshold while the company figure passes at 3.8%. Management sits at 4.6% — close enough to cross on next year’s hiring alone.

That is not a reporting problem you can catch in May. It is a reason to hold the data at category level all year, where you can see a category drifting toward the threshold before it crosses it.

Unexplained gap by category of worker

The headline passes. Two categories do not.

Sales 28 9.1%
Customer service 36 6.8%
Management 31 4.6%
Technical & maintenance 41 3.2%
Finance & administration 34 2.4%
Production operatives 98 1.9%

The dashed line is the 5% trigger for a joint pay assessment. Scale runs 0-10%.

Categories are the employer's own, grouped by equal work or work of equal value under paragraph 3(1).

Every category that breaches was drifting for a year before it did. The filing will not tell you that.

07 · Beyond the filing

The data it takes to file properly is the data that lets you manage pay.

And next year is cheaper than this year.

A defensible methodology only exists once pay, grade, tenure and job evaluation sit in one place. Once they do, they answer questions the report never asks: what a promotion actually costs, where the retention risk is, and what next year’s pay round does to the gap before you approve it.

That same layer is the base of our platform’s HR and people module — pay cost, utilisation, absence, turnover. Turning it on later is configuration, not another build.

Closing the gap is a budget line like any other: costed, spread across pay rounds, and falling as the structure holds. The methodology stays too — the second filing is the output of a model that already exists.

Cost to close, annualised

What closing it costs, as a number you can budget.

Sales12 affected · 9.1% unexplained€21,490
Customer service19 affected · 6.8% unexplained€18,290
To clear both breaches€39,780
Management — optional9 affected · 4.6%, under the trigger today€14,160
Including management€53,940

Annualised uplift to bring the unexplained portion to zero for affected employees. Phaseable across pay rounds, and it falls once the structure holds. Illustrative.

The obligation recurs every year, and so does the model. The second year costs less than the first.

08 · Where it runs

Inside your own tenant, under your own policies.

The platform goes to the data, not the data to the platform.

Pay data broken down by sex is the most sensitive employee information most organisations hold. For a large or public-sector employer the first question is not what the reports look like — it is whose infrastructure they run on.

Yours. Built natively on Azure and deployed into your own subscription: your tenant, your region, your ownership. There is no shared database where your payroll records sit next to somebody else’s.

If your security review has requirements we have not met, they are requirements, not exceptions.

In your own subscription

Nothing is copied to a vendor to be processed.

Azure Your subscription, your region
Azure SQL The model and the data stay here
Power BI Reports and scorecards
Inherited from your tenant
  • Entra ID and conditional access
  • Role-based access, row-level security
  • Your key management
  • Your logging and retention

Read-only by default, and reversible: the exit is a standard SQL export with documented mappings.

What you keep is a governed model in your own environment — not a dependency on us.

How it runs

Three phases, and the first one tells you whether you have a problem.

01

Baseline

One pay-period extract. The seven figures computed, the categories that breach identified, and what closing them would cost. Enough to know whether this is a filing exercise or a remediation programme.

02

Build

The job evaluation across all five factors, the categories drawn and justified, the governed model, and the documentation that stands behind the methodology. This is the work.

03

Run

The annual cycle, and the data held at category level between filings — so a category drifting toward the threshold is visible while there is still time to act on it.

Where to start

Start with a baseline on your own data.

One pay-period extract is enough to produce the seven figures, the categories that breach, and what closing them would cost. Then you decide what to do about it.