Job evaluation is a systematic process for defining the relative worth or size of jobs or roles within an organisation in order to establish internal relativities and provide the basis for designing a fair and equitable grade and pay structure. This leads to ensuring that all employees doing the same weight or worth of job are being paid the same rate, regardless of gender.
If an employer wishes to defend an equal pay claim, equal pay legislation requires the job evaluation study to have been done by an analytical method, i.e. the study should have been undertaken with a view to evaluating ‘in terms of the demands made on an employee under various headings (for example, effort, skills, decision, condition, responsibility, complexity etc.)
The employer must demonstrate the absence of sex bias in the job evaluation scheme, and jobs will be held to be covered by a job evaluation scheme only if they have been fully evaluated using the scheme’s factors. Slotting whole jobs against benchmarks is insufficient.
As specialists in analytical and non-analytical job evaluation schemes, HR Operatives can work with you to design a bespoke Job Evaluation Scheme to suit the needs of your organisation.