Current situation

Good morning people.
So recently at work I have been going through a scheme that local government devised. the scheme is called single status, its to bring all the different levels of staff across the whole local authority to a single uniform scale. the theory is sound, the out come us not.
The outcome for me was not that bad, but I am at the bottom if the pile. For those higher up however, lets say its a case to find a new job. When ever money is involved there will always be losers.
This has caused alot of stress for people.its made working quite hard to do as no one is prepared to do anything that its over there job role (me included) .this leads me to the dilemma I'm in work with nothing to do, well that I feel I should do as they think I'm capable of doing. Do I now work above what I am paid or do I sit around bored?