Request
Your request was about the following information:
For each grade below the Senior Civil Service (SCS) in your organisation, please could you supply
a) The name by which the grade is known in your organisation.
b) The broad equivalent civil service grade (Administrative Assistant (AA), Administrative Officer (AO),
Executive Officer (EO), Higher Executive Officer (HEO), Senior Executive Officer (SEO), Grade 7, Grade 6).
This may be multiple if grades have been merged.
c) A brief description of the grade and how it differs from broadly equivalent grades.
(e.g. National, London, Fast stream, Specialist requiring particular qualifications).
d) The amount and area of any regional pay allowances that are paid on top of basic pay for this grade.
e) The pay range minimum following the 2020 pay award. If the award is still pending, please supply the current minimum and the year to which this relates.
f) The pay range maximum following the 2020 pay award. This may be the same as the minimum. If the award is still pending, please supply the current maximum and the year to which this relates.
g) While progression is subject to pay negotiations each year and is paused for 2021, if the 2020 pay award
was repeated, how many years it would take to go from minimum to maximum.
Please indicate if the maximum is not achievable if the 2020 progression arrangements were repeated.
Response
Food Standards Scotland fall under the Scottish Government Main (SGM) pay bargaining unit. Under section 25(1) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is already reasonably accessible to you. Please see the link below for the information you have requested.
Information regarding pay award within Scottish Government: FOI release - gov.scot
