pay and grading structure used by your authority for NJC workers only - Find a freedom of information request

Please see the attached Freedom of Information request from UNISON on your pay and grading structure and the distribution of men, women and part-time workers within that structure.



I am attaching an FOI letter specifying the information that we are requesting. I am also attaching a spreadsheet into which you can insert your authority's data in response to question two.



I am writing to make a formal request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Please could you provide UNISON with the information requested in this letter as set out on the following pages? Attached to this email you'll find an Excel spreadsheet that can be completed to provide the data requested in question two below.



Under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, I am requesting the following:

1. Please provide the pay and grading structure used by your authority for NJC workers only, including any local extension of the pay spine.

2. Please provide the basic pay and gender distribution of NJC workers only employed by your local authority for each pay point you use, including any local extension of the pay spine, as below: Please do not include school support staff.

Female Male Total

Pay point Basic Pay rate per annum Full- time head count Part- time head count Part-time

FTE Full- time head count Part- time head count Part-time

FTE Headcount FTE

Please use the Excel template attached to the email when responding to this question.

3. Has your authority adopted/followed the Living Wage rate as set by the Living Wage Foundation?

· YES/NO

If YES go to Q4, if NO go to Q7

4. Which Foundation Living Wage rate have you adopted?

· London - £11.05/hour

· Outside London - £9.90/hour

· Other (please specify rate) £

5. How are you implementing the Foundation Living Wage rate?

· As a supplement

· Integrated into your grading structure

· Other (please specify)

6. Are you an accredited Living Wage Foundation employer?

7. If you have not implemented the Foundation Living Wage, are you firmly committed to doing so?

· YES/NO

8. If yes to Q7 will you implement it in 2022/23?

· YES/NO

9. What is your percentage gender pay gap?

* Mean

* Median

10. What is your percentage ethnicity pay gap?

* Mean

* Median
 

I can confirm that the information requested is held by Lincolnshire County Council. I have detailed below the information that is being released to you.

1. Please find attached

2. Please see attached. SCP1 is the apprentice point, and the figures include reliefs so there are instances of parttime headcount but zero FTE

3.No

7. NO as we have a collective agreement with anchor points on the NJC nationally negotiated pay rates which are NLW compliant.

8. N/a

9. * Mean 5.4%

* Median 3.3%

10. This is not calculated 

Should you require the attachments mentioned above please contact customerinformationservice@lincolnshire.gov.uk with the below reference number and these can be provided.