19th October 2005, 10:29 AM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by Barnesy
Taken from the RAO application form:
"Please confirm that all staff are paid at or above IFA recommended minimum salaries appropriate to their duties. Failure to confirm this will be published in the Register and Yearbook."
This is a bit disappointing - you'd have hoped that failure to conform to recommended pay scales would act as an automatic exclusion from the Register.
I agree with ML, - but how to influence this and get wages moving in the right direction is another matter. I'm thinking that it's time that independant analysis of wages is required. The university and public sector appears to be adopting the Hay method of job appraisal (see http://www.strath.ac.uk/payandreward/hay-eval.html for a quick outline of the scheme - the Hay website is at http://www.haygroup.co.uk ), and the results are influencing pay scales. Some of the groundwork necessary for such a review is already in place with documents like Profiling the Profession. Perhaps we should be suggesting to the relevant bodies - IFA, SCAUM, ALGAO, Prospect etc - that such an evaluation of the profession takes place across the board?