Your payroll register contains GDPR Article 9 data. A practical guide to lawful basis, cross-border transfers, retention by country, and the 72-hour clock.
Tag Archives: Blogs
Payslips and the EU Pay Transparency Directive, five weeks in
The 7 June 2026 deadline has passed and most member states missed it. What Directive 2023/970 asks of payroll data, and why the payslip is now evidence.
Gross-to-net is seven different calculations wearing one name
UK cumulative PAYE, Indian annual projection, German annual tables, US per-period withholding. Why the order of operations, not the rates, breaks engines.
Why the global payroll aggregator model breaks at country four
Most global payroll products are local providers behind one dashboard. What actually breaks in that model, when it breaks, and what a native engine changes.
Your HCM and your payroll do not agree about what time it is
Effective dating, delta versus full-file extracts, the mapping table nobody owns and FX policy: the parts of an HCM to payroll interface that break.
The payroll accuracy number nobody can define, and five that work
99.6 percent accuracy means nothing without a unit. The payroll metrics that survive a CFO’s follow-up: payslip correction rate, error source, cycle time.
The payroll controls an auditor will actually test in a walkthrough
Auditors do not test whether your payroll was right. They test whether the control operated. What gets tested, what counts as evidence, and how to fix it.
Retro pay, off-cycle runs and the corrections nobody plans for
A January pay rise surfaces in July. What to fix in period, which amendment to file in the UK, US, India and Germany, and how to recover an overpayment.
What AI should do in payroll, and what it must never calculate
AI belongs in payroll as a check on the run, not the engine that computes the tax. Where the line sits, what the EU AI Act requires, and what to ask vendors.