20 March 2019

Why you need job evaluation in your business

While defining job roles and pay rates sounds simple enough, for many companies, this process can actually be incredibly complex and time-consuming.

What happens when you have people complaining about unfair wages in your business? What happens when one of them is a woman and claims sex discrimination because you are paying the man next to her £100 per week more for doing the same job? Where do you place a new job in your pay system and how can you compare its value against all of the other jobs? How can you have a fair and open pay system?

The answer to these questions and more is to have a job evaluation (JE) scheme. "No!" I hear you say, "I've heard how all that does is let all the employees expect a pay rise; anyway, it's too expensive and complex to set up."

A job evaluation is an analysis of the various jobs performed in a company that systematically determines the relative importance of each. The goal of the evaluation is to have a uniform, fair and objective method for evaluating pay and performance. HR departments often look to expert consultants to provide an outside, objective view and do the leg work to create a compliant, analytical scheme.

Job evaluation is not that expensive and as a member you get access to help from the start from your HR Advisor team. It's not complicated and it's not a licence to print wages. What it can do is help you defend any equal pay claims, see where there are gaps in your pay structure; help you build and maintain a new, fairer pay structure and allow you to understand the relative value and importance of all of your jobs.

For more information on how the HR team could help your business with job evaulation download the document below.