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United Kingdom UNISON
In local government the negotiation of a pay and grading structure in 1997, the Single Status Agreement, was based on equal pay principles. There is also a new nationally agreed job evaluation scheme which gives recognition to skills usually associated with women, such as caring and communication skills, and revaluing jobs such as home care. The job evaluation exercise merged manual and non-manual jobs into one status, and further progressed equal pay. It also incorporated a landmark agreement to remove pay discrimination in 1986 for a new job evaluation exercise covering one million local authority manual workers, of whom three-quarters were women. The social partners drew up 540 job descriptions which were broken down according to skill, responsibility, initiative, mental and physical effort, and working conditions. However, local employers are not forced to adopt the new job evaluation scheme. UNISON has a campaign called “Get Equal” which seeks to ensure that equal pay is properly implemented at branch level.
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