Acting Up and Honoraria Policy - October 2024

Policy Statement

The Council recognises that it may be necessary from time to time to apply an additional payment when an employee is requested to ‘act up’ into a higher graded post or temporarily undertake additional duties.

Where changes to the job are likely to be permanent, a revised job profile should be submitted to the Pay and Reward team and the post should be re-evaluated under the Council’s Job Evaluation scheme.

Where changes are of a temporary nature and will be in place for 12 months or less, an honorarium, or acting up payment, may apply.

The purpose of this Policy is to ensure that the additional payments are properly evaluated and applied on a consistent basis.

This procedure covers all employees including centrally employed school staff except centrally employed teachers and staff on the complement of locally managed schools.