Guidance Documentation

Guidance Documents

These are some of the documents we use with our clients. You are welcome to download them and use them within your business.

Why you need to do an EPA

Our briefing paper gives you an overview of what equal pay is all about, and the common pitfalls that organisations stumble across.   We explain what advantages you can gain for your business from getting an equal pay audit done. We share some common myths and remind you why market rates are not the answer to everything.

All You need to Know About Using a Reward Consultant

This is the briefing paper you need if you or your team have never used a reward consultant before.  It can be daunting and we have put together a little bit of guidance about what to expect.  

Benchmarking - How to get really good benchmarking data

Getting benchmarking data you will really find useful needs just a little planning.  Here are some key questions every organisation should consider before sourcing benchmarking information.

Introduction to KPlan

KPlan is a bespoke job evaluation scheme, operated under license.  This document provides some further information about the scheme.


Which job sizing approach works for you

Job evaluation can be a resource intensive process.  This document summarises the alternative approaches and the risks associated with each.



How to make your Job Evaluation Scheme work for you

We believe there is a trick to getting your managers more engaged with your job evaluation scheme.  Getting it to work for you means getting them more involved, and ensuring the process remains effective.  Here are our 10 steps to making your job evaluation scheme work for you.

Types of Pay Structure

There are only so many types of pay structure - the rest is about process.  We have summarised the different types of structure in this document.

How benefits align to lifestyle

We believe there is much to gain from aligning your benefits provision to the lifestyles of your staff.  Understanding the demographic will help you focus on where your benefits budget can be most usefully employed.   This short brief summarises how lifestyle can impact benefits choices.

Useful web sites

The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development: The professional body for Human Resources in the UK, Championing better work and working lives

Government Gender Pay Gap: The gender pay gap viewing service: see who’s published their GPG statistics

ONS Gender Pay Gap calculator: An interactive tool for finding out the gender pay gap for your role

ACAS GPG Guidance: Formal guidance from ACAS on how to publish your statistics

GPG Reporting Legislation: The latest regulations defining GPG reporting requirements

Employee Benefits: A link to the Employee Benefits magazine website

E-Reward: A provider of reward management information through its web site, publications, research, conferences, training and executive pay database. 
Share by: