Source: IRS Employment Review Issue: 930 Date: 05-10-2009 Publisher: IRS

Unison's equality-proofed pay and grading structure

TOPICS:
pay and benefits pay levels and awards
HR policy and strategy business challenges
contracts of employment varying the contract of employment
employee relations collective relations
trade unions
equal opportunities equal opportunities policy and practice

SECTORS:
services (other)

AUTHOR: Sue Milsome


Following the creation of Unison in 1993 and the legacy of five different sets of terms and conditions, the union set about equality-proofing its pay structure for staff, and harmonising terms and conditions. This case study charts the obstacles that were overcome and details the new pay structure. 

On this page:
Aftermath of merger
Job evaluation needed
Negotiations
Establishing the factors of a job evaluation scheme
Benchmarking, analysing and assimilating jobs
Protection
Overcoming protection obstacles
Equal value issues
Equality-proofing
Organisation profile
Box 1: Timeline
Box 2: Document extract of Unison's job evaluation scheme
Box 3: Unison's pay and grading structure, effective from 1 January 2009
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The timeline below gives an overview of events in our Unison case study. Click on the information bubbles for further details about this case study. 

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