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The Executive
Tuesday, 29 April 2003

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ITEM EX11 - Annex 1

EXECUTIVE - 29 APRIL 2003

JOB EVALUATION FOR COUNTY COUNCIL EMPLOYEES

Joint Agreement to Implement Job Evaluation for Green Book Employees

Oxfordshire Unison and Oxfordshire County Council agree to the implementation of job evaluation for all Green Book employees with effect from 1 June 2003 in accordance with the following conditions:

  1. The job evaluation scheme included in the Green Book will be used in all cases, as amended by locally agreed conventions.

  2. The Grading System at Annex 1 to this agreement will apply in all cases for employees currently paid on the national Green Book pay spine as locally extended for Senior Management Range posts.

  3. Pay will progress up grades by annual increments until the maximum for the grade is reached, unless there are exceptional circumstances which will be discussed with the employee affected and Unison.

  4. Annual nationally agreed pay rises will apply.

  5. Where a job or job family is shown to be graded lower by the scheme than the market rate for the job a comprehensive investigation will take place to ascertain the appropriate market rate for the job. A market supplement will then be jointly agreed and applied in accordance with Annex 2 of this agreement.

  6. Where an employee is dis-satisfied with his/her grade he/she will use the appeals procedure attached at Annex 3 to this agreement.

  7. This agreement will be reviewed as required by either party. The current agreement will apply until further changes are agreed through local negotiation.

    8. Transitional Arrangements

  8. Due to the cost of implementing the new system a phasing arrangement will apply. Those employees who are due an increase in grade will move up the Pay Spine in 3 steps until they reach their evaluated grade. Annual increments and pay awards will continue to apply where appropriate. Final arrangements for this transition will be agreed between the parties of this agreement. By the 1 April 2005 all employees should have attained the Spinal Column Point which they would have reached had their regrading been implemented in full without phasing on 1 June 2003. In other words, everyone will have caught up fully by April 2005.

  9. For those whose grades do not change their pay will, of course, be unaffected.

  10. Those whose grade is due to be reduced will experience no effects until 1 September 2006 because full protection of pay including annual national pay awards and incremental rises will apply until that date, when new grades will apply, together with any market supplements due.

  11. In the case of employees who submitted a formal grading claim which was subject to the agreed Moratorium and where the grade for the job has been increased by job evaluation, the employee will receive the full evaluated grade for the job, back-dated to the agreed date of the formal application. Any honoraria given in recognition of the claim will be taken into consideration when calculating back pay. The additional costs of this re-grading will fall to Directorate budgets as with other ‘normal’ grading claims.

 

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For Oxfordshire County Council For Oxfordshire Unison

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