EU-wide guidelines on gender-neutral job evaluation and classification: Step-by-step toolkit

Negotiating aid for trade unions - Tool 8

Trade unions are key to ensuring that job evaluation and classification systems are fair and transparent.

With this tool, trade unions can:

• Use a negotiating aid to push for gender-neutral job evaluation and classification in collective bargaining;
• Check whether pay structures are based on objective, gender-neutral criteria;
• Identify cases where women-dominated jobs may be undervalued and raise this in negotiations;
• Strengthen their capacity to advocate for equal pay for equal work or work of equal value between women and men.

At-a-glance

• Use the four key gender-neutral factors (skills, responsibility, effort, working conditions) to anchor negotiations.
•  Ask for a joint evaluation committee and transparent documentation.
• Review outcomes regularly; regrade existing jobs and evaluate new job roles.

Downloads

For more detailed guidance, download the step-by-step toolkit and check Tool 8.

EU-wide guidelines on gender-neutral job evaluation and classification: Step-by-step toolkit