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Equitable Job Evaluation Tool
As part of the Government’s Pay and Employment Equity Plan of Action, the Pay and Employment Equity Unit develops methodologies and tools to enable organisations to implement pay and employment equity.
The focus of the Equitable Job Evaluation tool is on the design of a job evaluation scheme that takes account of the sources of gender bias that have been identified in equal pay cases and in research, and takes into account a range of good practice guidelines.
The jobs women do, how jobs are valued and how jobs are organised, all contribute to the persistence of the gender pay gap in the Public Service and the public health and public education sectors. The purpose of the Equitable Job Evaluation tool is to ensure that employers in these sectors can deliver pay equity through reference to an instrument that provides for gender neutrality across systems that evaluate the size of specific jobs and the processes that inform pay rates, including job size.
The Equitable Job Evaluation tool has been designed specifically to facilitate better recognition of the nature and contribution of female-dominated occupations to performance of important areas of the State Services. As well as collecting job information about and evaluating female-dominated occupations, the tool is available for general use and also where pay investigations have been identified through the review process and ensuing response plans. See the notes from the EJE briefing to consultants and job evaluation practitioners held in May 2007.
The tool is available for a two-step release. The first step involves a review after the first significant use of the tool. This will include a review of the overall job evaluation process, to provide feedback about any further refinement needed on education and training and on guidance materials. The second step will be an overall review of the tool and its operation, to be conducted after a significant number and range of jobs have been evaluated across different types of organisations, within all three sectors. A limited number of the Equitable Job Evaluation tool materials will be available for the early implementation phase. In addition, a suite of education and training materials is also being developed to support the implementation of the tool. These materials can be obtained by contacting the Unit at equity@dol.govt.nz.