Whether allied health professionals who are paid different rates for doing the same job are entitled to equal pay for equal work under exis…

The ScottishGovernment is committed to the principle of equal pay for work of equal value,and this underpins the new Agenda for Change pay system.
All parties to the agreement in Scotland have taken the view that consistency and accuracyare central to the effective implementation of Agenda for Change. This isreflected in the job evaluation scheme which has been designed to be verydeliberate, robust and rigorous in its assessment of pay. Added to this is atwo stage checking process where job evaluation outcomes are considered at botha local and national level. These processes were agreed and taken forward inpartnership with trade unions and professional organisations.
The Agenda for Change job evaluation system isdesigned to assess the tasks undertaken in a particular job and the skills andknowledge required to carry out those tasks to an acceptable level. In the pastjob titles were in some circumstances used quite generically, and did notnecessarily reflect key differences in the work which was being undertaken byindividuals. Therefore under Agenda for Change job evaluation, staff who werepreviously working under the same job title may not necessarily come out to thesame band once they have been through the job evaluation process.
In circumstanceswhere staff feel that the job evaluation system has assessed them incorrectly,they can request a review of the outcome. The review process is conducted inpartnership, and is undertaken by fully trained job evaluators who have had noinvolvement in the original assessment.