Fidelma McGuirk’s Payslip has today launched Lecora, a purpose-built EU Pay Transparency Reporting Platform that extends the global payroll technology company’s capabilities into one of the most significant new areas of workforce reporting and equal pay compliance in Europe.
Lecora builds on Payslip’s experience consolidating and standardising payroll and HR data across countries and payroll providers. Lecora will give Irish employers, as well as organisations operating across the EU, a central platform to identify, analyse and report gender pay differences across their workforces and manage potentially significant volumes of employee Right-to-Information requests.
Its launch comes as employers prepare for the EU Pay Transparency Directive, which introduces significant new requirements around gender pay reporting, pay gaps between people performing the same work or work of equal value, and employees’ access to information about how their pay compares with comparable workers.
Lecora is designed around the two major compliance and operational requirements employers will face under the Directive: Article 9 statutory reporting, which requires employers to analyse and report gender pay gaps, and Article 7 employee Right-to-Information reporting, which requires employers to provide individual employees with specific information about their pay and the pay of comparable workers. Lecora brings both requirements into a single platform, enabling employers to manage statutory reporting alongside employee information requests.
EU Member States were required to transpose the Directive into national law by 7 June 2026, with Ireland’s implementation process continuing as employers prepare for the new requirements. Under the Directive, employers with 250 or more workers and those with 150–249 workers will be required to begin gender pay gap reporting by 7 June 2027, while employers with 100–149 workers will come within the reporting requirements from 2031.
The Directive goes considerably further than Ireland’s existing gender pay gap reporting requirements. Employers will need to look beyond organisation-wide averages and explain pay differences within categories of workers performing the same work or work of equal value. Crucially, the Directive also creates a major new administrative requirement for employers through Article 7 Right-to-Information requests. Employees will be able to request information on their individual pay level and the average pay levels, broken down by sex, for categories of workers performing the same work or work of equal value. This right applies irrespective of company size, meaning Irish employers that may not initially fall within Article 9 statutory reporting thresholds will still need to be prepared to respond to employee information requests.
These requests can arise throughout the year, creating a potentially significant new workload for HR, Reward and Compliance teams. Each request can require employers to identify the appropriate category of comparable workers, bring together accurate remuneration data, calculate the relevant pay information and provide a compliant response within the required timeframe. Without the data and processes already in place, what appears to be a single employee request can become a complex manual exercise involving multiple HR and payroll data sources. Lecora is designed to manage this process in one environment, from the initial request through to the calculation, response and case record.
Fidelma McGuirk, CEO of Payslip, said: “EU Pay Transparency represents a major change in how employers will need to understand and explain pay. It moves the conversation beyond an organisation-wide gender pay gap towards a much more detailed understanding of whether people doing the same work or work of equal value are being paid equally and, where differences exist, whether those differences can be objectively explained. We believe this will fundamentally change how employers think about pay data and the information they need to have readily available. That starts with having accurate and comparable information across their workforce. Payslip already solves the challenge of bringing payroll data together across countries and providers, and Lecora takes that capability into EU Pay Transparency, giving HR and Reward teams one environment in which they can understand their position, prepare for the new requirements, complete statutory reporting and respond to employee Right-to-Information requests.”
Lecora represents a significant expansion of Payslip’s product offering, building on a global payroll platform that processes more than 1.3 million payslips each month across more than 125 countries and powers over €5 billion in payroll payments globally. The launch extends Payslip’s existing payroll data and automation capabilities into EU Pay Transparency, as the company continues to broaden its technology offering for multinational employers.
