SAUT thFramework Implementation Report: 6 December 2005 The Framework Implementation process is moving into its crucial stages, both on the Job Evaluation front and the design of new pay structures. Benchmark Jobs The Hay scoring of the Benchmark Jobs was completed satisfactorily, giving an overview of the rank order of a selection of jobs from across all categories of University staff. Given that about 120 jobs were scored out of 3000+ posts across the University, this does not give a definitive picture of Strathclyde job rankings, and so confidentiality of the outcome of this exercise to the Partnership Group has been maintained to avoid misinterpretation of the data. Job Families It has been agreed that there will be the following Job Families • Operational – generally staff represented by the TGWU • Technical – Staff represented by AMICUS • Administrative and Professional Services – current secretarial/clerical staff represented by UNISON through to ALC and other Academic Related Staff represented by AUT For Academic, Research and Other Related Staff employed in teaching/teaching support, Management had been tentatively accepting that there would be one Academic Job Family covering all these roles, a position that the SAUT Committee believes is the most logical. However, the University has recently realized the implications of this for the status of Research and Other Related Staff within the University and has backtracked to ...