Single status
The agreement covers:
- a standard working week of 37 hours for all employees – introduced in Derbyshire in 1999
- a pay and grading review which recognises equal pay for work of equal value
- the introduction of locally agreed terms and conditions of employment – “The Derbyshire Package”.
Unison, GMB, AMICUS and the TGWU unions are involved in the review.
The review includes an extensive job evaluation programme to:
- create a rank order of jobs according to the overall demands of each post
- provide a solid base for a new fair and equal pay structure
- define job families and career structures.
The council has decided that all grades of job will be evaluated using the Hay Job Evaluation Scheme. This will enable a new fair and equal pay structure to be developed as quickly as possible.
If you are in a job graded up to SO2 and have gone through, or are about to go through the NJC process you will see little difference. We are still using the NJC process for gathering information about your job. Only the evaluation method will change. Job Evaluation panels will score all jobs using the Hay rather than NJC evaluation scheme.
Not all jobs will be evaluated - where there are a lot of the same or similar jobs, a representative sample will be evaluated. Unique (one-off) jobs will also be evaluated.
Only your job is being evaluated - not your performance. A new pay and grading structure will be in place by Sept 2008 at the latest.
