Pay and performance

How are jobs evaluated? What determines salary progression, and how do performance reviews affect pay? Our seminars combine legal foundations with practical approaches to these questions. Through workplace examples, exercises and discussion, your council learns to assess existing systems, develop its own priorities and prepare negotiations on works agreements.

Your council can cover pay systems and performance evaluation together in an in-house course tailored to its knowledge and priorities. Our open programme offers two separate courses: Remuneration I and Remuneration II.

Understanding pay structures and salary progression

We explore how job requirements, pay grades, salary bands and allowances fit together. Your council learns about criteria for job evaluation, assignment to pay grades or job families, and salary progression. Practical examples show how transparent distribution principles can be applied in pay review rounds. We also examine the scope for co-determination and the role of statutory requirements, collective agreements and contractual provisions.

Assessing performance, targets and bonus schemes

What makes performance criteria fair and meaningful? How are targets set, and how much influence do employees have over achieving them? We examine appraisal procedures, agreements on performance targets and bonus schemes, including their effects on workload and development opportunities.

Together, we explore approaches that strengthen collaboration and recognise collective contributions. We also discuss procedures for challenging assessments and the data protection and monitoring issues raised by digital performance management.

Promoting pay transparency and equal treatment

Your council learns how to examine available pay data and assessment criteria to identify potential discrimination. We consider how equal work and work of equal value can be assessed and explore approaches to addressing unjustified gender pay differences. The requirements of the Wage Transparency Act and the General Equal Treatment Act provide a framework for developing fair and transparent arrangements.

Evaluating system changes and transition rules

Using practical examples, we compare existing and proposed pay or appraisal systems and examine their effects on different groups of employees. Your council learns how to assess economic assumptions and cost implications, develop transition rules and safeguard existing entitlements. We use these findings to explore possible negotiating goals and provisions for works agreements.

In-house training tailored to your council

Our in-house courses are tailored to your council’s existing knowledge, priorities and workplace situation. Pay structures, salary progression and performance evaluation can be covered together, with the emphasis and depth adapted to your needs. Your council’s questions and examples provide a starting point for applying what you learn to your workplace.

Two courses in our open programme

Remuneration I – Fair and transparent remuneration systems: effective co-determination

Over three days, participants explore the design of pay systems, job evaluation and grading. They review existing structures and develop starting points for a fair and transparent workplace pay policy.

Remuneration II – Performance evaluation in company remuneration systems

This course focuses on fair performance evaluation and its relationship with pay. Participants examine appraisal criteria, performance targets and bonus schemes and explore how these can support equal treatment, collaboration and recognition of collective contributions.