Willis Towers Watson, HR Directors at the 'Giro d'Italia' discuss pay transparency

Fifth stop for "Il Giro d'Italia con HR Director" by Willis Towers Watson (WTW), a cycle of meetings that brings together the HR community on the main emerging trends that are having an increasingly significant impact on human resources and business functions. The initiative is part of a path of discussion that WTW has developed in recent years, taking the form of an itinerant platform for dialogue between companies, hosted from time to time by realities of the national territory.

Against this backdrop, the 14 April appointment in Rome - organised and promoted by WTW in partnership with De Fusco Labour & Legal and hosted at Sace, with Marco Antonelli, Chro, doing the honours - places the Wage Transparency Directive at the centre of the debate. A natural choice, in the light of the growing centrality of the topic and the moment in which we find ourselves: with little more than two months to go before the deadline of 7 June 2026 for transposition into the national laws of the EU Member States, the Directive represents one of the most important regulatory steps in recent years for HR Directors, destined to have a concrete impact on remuneration models, HR processes and methods of communication towards employees and candidates.

Edoardo Cesarini, CEO of WTW, opened the proceedings by introducing the main topics of discussion and accompanied the entire day, moderating the various contributions and fostering dialogue between companies and institutions. During the course of the day, Enzo De Fusco, Founder and Partner of De Fusco Labour & Legal, delved into the legal aspects of the preliminary text, offering a detailed reading of the main regulatory implications and the operational repercussions for Italian companies called upon to comply with the new transparency obligations. The event also saw the welcome return of Claudio Durigon, Undersecretary at the Ministry of Labour and Social Policies, who enriched the discussion by offering an institutional point of view on the final stages of the transposition process of the Directive in Italia.

To complete the discussion, two round tables animated the day, giving voice to the HR Directors of different Italian companies. HR Directors Marco Antonelli (Sace), Paolo Chiriotti (Tim), Franco Ghiringhelli (Maire) and Silvia Marinari (Snam) took part in the first round table to deepen their respective paths of preparation for Pay Transparency, also with a view to comparing the Italian text with that of other EU countries.

In the second round table discussion involved HR Directors Paola Boromei (Il Sole24Ore), Massimiliano Branchi (Saipem), Luca De Santis (Eni), Antonio Liotti (Leonardo) and Luciano Sale (Fincantieri), who commented on the challenges related to the implications of the transposition of the legislation in Italia.