Webinar
Building transparent reward frameworks
When: Thursday 12 Feb 2026, 11:00 AM GMT
Duration: 45 minutes
Pay transparency is accelerating across Europe, driven by new EU legislation and growing expectations for openness. Is your organisation getting ahead of the curve and using transparency to strengthen fairness, trust and engagement?
Insights into how to connect transparency to action – Jennie Jakubowski will show how robust pay and reward frameworks create the structure needed for consistent, defensible and equitable pay decisions. You’ll learn how pay grading strengthens fairness, clarifies role value, supports progression, reduces legal and reputational risk, and enhances communication across your organisation.
Joins us for:
- An overview from Robert Shore of EU developments in pay transparency.
- The latest Brightmine research on salary visibility in job adverts, why pay disclosure matters, and how employers are evolving their internal practices, with Sheila Attwood.
- Insights into how to connect transparency to action – Jennie Jakubowski will show how robust pay and reward frameworks create the structure needed for consistent, defensible and equitable pay decisions. You’ll learn how pay grading strengthens fairness, clarifies role value, supports progression, reduces legal and reputational risk, and enhances communication across your organisation.
We’ll close with a live Q&A to help you translate insight into impact
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When: Thursday 12 Feb 2026, 11:00 AM
Duration: 45 minutes
More about our contributors
Robert Shore
HR Markets Insights Editor, Brightmine
Robert has over 20 years’ experience of publishing and journalism. At Brightmine he creates and commissions content for webinars and podcasts and for the Commentary and insights tool.
He has a Graduate Diploma in Law from the University of Law. He was formerly an International employment law editor at Brightmine, and prior to that worked as an arts journalist.
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Sheila Attwood
Senior Content Manager, Data and HR Insights at Brightmine
Sheila leads the team that is responsible for the data and market insights content on Brightmine, including the employer practice surveys, webinars and podcasts, and reward content.
Sheila holds a BA in geography. She has almost 30 years’ experience of working in a research and editorial capacity in a publishing environment, with a focus on the labour market, reward, industrial relations and HR practice.
Sheila is an expert on company pay awards and is regularly called upon to appear in the broadcast and print media to comment on the level of increase in pay rates.
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Jennie Jakubowski
Data Operations Manager at Brightmine
Jennie Jakubowski is the Data Operations Manager at Brightmine, with over 25 years of experience in reward data and analytics. She leads all core data operations and oversees bespoke reporting, including executive pay benchmarking, job matching, and the development of pay grading structures.
Connect with Jennie on LinkedIn
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