The initiative calls for unifying
job classifications.
The ranges for particular
job classifications don't always tell the whole story - for some positions, overtime can boost compensation beyond the maximum.
In 2007, the Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau, a government entity that oversees
job classifications in California, undertook a study to determine if there were classification errors among 219 large companies.
The data were tested for differences in the practice of the essential services and core competencies among
job classifications, for differences across PHAs, for differences between rural and urban PHAs, and for differences in abilities in the core competencies among
job classifications, PHAs, and academic backgrounds.
132) Likewise, the author reveals that while business leaders complained about a labor shortage, this was actually the result of the racialization and gendering of
job classifications.
Given the size of PG&E's service area and the variety of
job classifications (from office workers to field crew supervisors), the ELT communication approach had to be diverse, combining both push and pull electronic vehicles and face-to-face communication.
Among the advancements agreed to by the UAW were streamlining
job classifications to a single listing--operator--and flexibility in work scheduling.
For financial reporting purposes, a plan of involuntary termination is defined as a plan that (a) identifies, at a minimum, the number of employees to be terminated, the
job classifications or functions that will be affected and their locations, and when the terminations are expected to occur and (b) establishes the terms of the termination benefits in sufficient detail to enable employees to determine the type and amount of benefits they will receive if they are involuntarily terminated.
One benefit of overhauling the rules was that job descriptions had to be reviewed, and many errors may have been found in
job classifications and descriptions, notes Kaplan.
The third major obstacle was the fact that Avista has four different union locals, each having different
job classifications.
Job seekers can narrow their focus to such
job classifications as construction, finance, sales and marketing, executive positions, and more and can look for jobs by state--or cast the net wide for all available positions.
