Single Status

Job Evaluation and Single Status are part of a national agreement which the Council is required to put into action locally. Known as the “Red Book” Scottish agreement, it was drawn up between the employers and the trade unions representing Local Government Employees in Scotland. The agreement required each Council to undertake a job evaluation exercise for all employees who had been on the former APT&C, residential and manual workers conditions of service. At the end of the job evaluation exercise, when putting results into operation the Council has to harmonise conditions of service between the groups to ensure that all employees move to a common set of conditions of service.

After we embarked on the evaluation part of the process in Argyll and Bute the scheme was revised which led to delays in bringing the process to completion. Although we are now beyond the target implementation date, which was originally 1 April 2002 and then revised nationally to 1 April 2004, we are now putting the job evaluation results into action and harmonising conditions of service with effect from 18th February 2008.

The Council has now agreed a new pay structure and package of conditions of service. These will come into effect on Monday 18th February 2008. Letters have been sent to all employees covered by the Single Status agreement, providing details of the new pay structure and package of conditions of service as it affects them. To assist in considering the Council's offer, the attached Single Status Pack has the following documents: -

Conditions of Service Package
Frequently Asked Questions
Departmental contact details

This document, and also the Pay Structure comprising Pay Model, Spinal Column Points, Hourly Rates and annual salary values, can be accessed below.