HRMAGIX012Performance, progression and payEmployee Promotion Policy
The basis on which a promotion is considered, who decides, and how a change in grade or designation takes effect.
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Purpose
This policy states the basis on which a promotion is considered, who decides, and how a change in grade or designation takes effect.
Its practical function is to make progression legible. Where the basis is unwritten, the absence of a promotion is read as a judgement about the person rather than about the criteria.
Who it applies to
Every employee eligible for progression under the employer's grade structure.
What you write into it
Progression policies fail on process rather than principle. The template provides the cycle and the sequence; the criteria, the weightings and who decides are the parts that make it yours.
- What makes an employee eligible for consideration
- Who proposes, who reviews and who approves
- How the decision relates to the review cycle
- From what date a promotion takes effect, and how it is communicated
What HRMagix records
A progression decision that cannot be evidenced is difficult to defend later. These are the records that support it.
- Grade and designation changes are effective-dated rather than overwritten, so the position that applied at any past date remains reconstructable
- The change reaches the next payroll run without a second entry
Where the rules themselves live
No cycle, rating scale or eligibility period appears above. Those are the employer's criteria, and restating them here would create a second version to keep in step with the approved one. Read HRMAGIX012 in full.