12th September 2008, 09:36 AM
In my experience the terms and conditions don't change that much. Pay goes up, hopefully every year. Inertia within units is massive, and things don't change too often. I worked at one unit for ten years, over that time the unit moved address once, changed its pay structure once, invented two new job categories- other than that little changed (particularly the pay!)
You could have a simple annual update pro-forma that could be sent out, if its not updated, it says so on the form. Units *want* to attract good staff, so setting out their stall properly works well for them and shows up the poor employers and champions the best. If it was done as a simple system you could query and rank by pay/location/pension etc and easily compare units.
Another possible problem is all the small units (and specialists/freelancers like me) that don't really fit in, but as we aren't really employers that may not be a real problem.
It wouldn't have to have all the pay etc stuff -although I think that would be ideal- at its simplest it could be some additional text on the contractors list on BAJR.
But to get back to the crux of the matter, what do you want to know about a potential employer, and how important is to be able to readily compare units???
You could have a simple annual update pro-forma that could be sent out, if its not updated, it says so on the form. Units *want* to attract good staff, so setting out their stall properly works well for them and shows up the poor employers and champions the best. If it was done as a simple system you could query and rank by pay/location/pension etc and easily compare units.
Another possible problem is all the small units (and specialists/freelancers like me) that don't really fit in, but as we aren't really employers that may not be a real problem.
It wouldn't have to have all the pay etc stuff -although I think that would be ideal- at its simplest it could be some additional text on the contractors list on BAJR.
But to get back to the crux of the matter, what do you want to know about a potential employer, and how important is to be able to readily compare units???