Even without a German law transposing EU Directive 23/970, the legal framework for businesses will change on 8 June 2026: the right to equal pay for work of equal value is enshrined in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).

Job evaluation criteria, job evaluation system, job architecture, pay structure – four terms that are closely related but often confused. What exactly do they mean and how do they interact? INES Analytics explains. Job evaluation criteria = Evaluation criteria Job evaluation criteria serve to record the requirements and complexity of tasks in a structured, comprehensible manner that is independent of the person performing them. On this basis, different tasks can be compared o