Job evaluation

New and updated

• Date:

  7 December 2017

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  Job evaluation: 2017 XpertHR survey

  We look at the design, use and outcomes of job evaluation schemes.

• Type:

  How to

  How to select, devise and use a job evaluation scheme

  Practical guidance on how to select, devise and use a job evaluation scheme, for example for the purpose of introducing a single pay and grading structure or carrying out an equal pay audit.

• Type:

  Tasks

  Decide on a job evaluation scheme

• Type:

  Tasks

  Carry out a job evaluation exercise

• Type:

  Tasks

  Implement the results of a job evaluation exercise

• Type:

  Employment glossary

  Job evaluation

  Definition from the XpertHR glossary.

• Type:

  Employment glossary

  Red circle

  Definition from the XpertHR glossary.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can an employer defend an equal value claim on the basis that it has carried out a job evaluation scheme?

• Date:

  13 October 2008

  Type:

  Law reports

  Equal pay: Pay protection scheme not objectively justified

  In Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council v Bainbridge and Equality and Human Rights Commission and other appeals [2008] IRLR 776, the Court of Appeal held that a transitional pay protection scheme that, in effect, preserved the previous (unlawful) pay levels of men, while failing to offer equivalent higher pay to women engaged on work rated as equivalent, perpetuated historic indirect sex discrimination and was not objectively justified.

• Date:

  5 August 2008

  Type:

  Law reports

  Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council v Bainbridge and Equality and Human Rights Commission and other appeals

  The Court of Appeal has held that arrangements to protect the pay of predominantly male groups after a job evaluation scheme were discriminatory and could not be justified.