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B: STRATEGIC AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
What are the strategic aims of Public Sector Pay Policy?
1. The Scottish Government's policy on public sector pay has three strategic aims:
a) To make sure that public sector pay increases are affordable and sustainable and, through the targeting of resources, that value for money is secured.
b) To provide flexibility within an overarching policy for public bodies to determine the pay and reward systems that are right for their business needs.
c) To make sure that public sector pay is fair and non-discriminatory.
What are the objectives of Public Sector Pay Policy in Scotland?
2. From these strategic aims, Public Sector Pay Policy has a number of objectives:
- to reward public sector employees fairly for the work that they do;
- to allow public sector employers to recruit, motivate and retain able and committed staff;
- to allow public sector employers to address low pay;
- to make sure that pay is related to performance;
- to reward exceptional performance by payment of non-consolidated bonuses;
- to address inequality in pay within public bodies;
- to allow public sector employers to address, over time, any equalities issues in pay and reward systems and structures;
- for public sector pay range maxima or target rates to be in line with the medians of the maxima in the labour market data published as part of the annual policy or an agreed specific or specialist labour market where more relevant;
- to make sure that public resources are used effectively and that public bodies secure value for money;
- to encourage a total reward approach to public sector pay, including non-pay rewards as well as increases in basic pay;
- to address issues impacting on the delivery of outcomes by public bodies; and
- to pay increases on the settlement date when they become due.
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