Creating a fairer Britain
Ensuring that a job evaluation scheme does not discriminate on grounds of sex, race, disability or age involves examining every aspect of the scheme from design through implementation to monitoring the outcomes.
Working through the checklists will help you ensure that any job evaluation scheme you use is free from sex or any other prohibited form of bias:
If you use more than one job evaluation scheme you will need to answer the questions in the checklists in respect of each of the schemes and checklist D.
If you do not know the answers to some of the questions in the checklists then you may need to seek information from people involved at the time that decisions were taken, e.g. earlier generations of job evaluation panel members or long-standing trade union reps. You may also need to contact the consultants who designed and helped to implement the scheme. If you find you have large number of unanswered questions, then it may well be that your scheme would not stand up to scrutiny.
The checklists provide a risk assessment system for your organisation's position in relation to job evaluation. If you answer 'no' to any of the checklist questions, then your organisation's job evaluation system(s) could be vulnerable to challenge. The higher your number of 'no' responses, the greater the risk.