Job evaluations (FOI)

Request

I wish to have the following for Social Workers, Senior Practitioners, Team Managers and Service Managers relating to the pay regrading some of these groups received around November 2017:

JITs, evaluation documents, panel notes and associated correspondence relating to the job evaluations carried out by HAY, as mentioned in the Root Cause Analysis published on 10 December; the "three different job evaluation consultancies" as mentioned in the letter to staff from [name redacted] dated 10 December and any other contributors used to inform the decision to reverse the grading announced on 10 December 2018.

Response

To answer this question would require significant work in the collation of the information requested, some of which is not held in a manner which is conducive to easy understanding and / or interpretation. Manipulation of the data held would be required.

It is considered that to retrieve and extract the information in reference to your request would exceed the cost limit provisions allowed under article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 and the 12.5 hours maximum allowed under regulation 2 (1) of the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014.

It is also the view that the principles of the Office of the Information Commissioner (OIC) Decision notice of 19 December 2018 apply. The Decision Notice is available through the following link:

OIC Decision Notice of 19 December 2018

Article applied

Article 16 - A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive

(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations.

Regulation 2 (1) of the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014 allows an authority to refuse a request for information where the estimated cost of dealing with the request would exceed the specified amount of the cost limit of £500. This is the estimated

cost of one person spending 12.5 working hours in determining whether the department holds the information, locating, retrieving and extracting the information.