I am concerned about the productivity aspect of benchmarking. I have been engaged in similar negotiations for most of my life and I know a disguised pay rise when I see one. It is only too easy to say, "That is productivity and we will work it out afterwards". It is a great achievement to have abolished relativities and the embedded practices that were in place so the public service can move forward. That was worth doing because relativities were a killer. I like money to be invested in low paid workers. One of the difficulties in the past was when an award was made to the lowest paid workers, workers in the next grade said they were always X% ahead of them and the scales were adjusted accordingly. It is good to have moved away from that.