Advice and action: Effective date of upscaling support staff
Carolien went up a scale in November due to new job descriptions for support staff. Shouldn't that have been by August 2020, she wonders. Initially, a revaluation should have taken place.
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Carolien has enjoyed working in primary education for a few years in the position of teaching assistant (scale 5). Before the summer holidays of 2020, Carolien has heard that the job classification system for educational support staff is being updated. The employer makes use of the exemplary positions that educational unions and the primary education council have agreed upon in the collective labor agreement for primary education.
After the summer holidays, the employer held talks with the employees about their job content and grading. On the basis of these interviews, the employer determines whether the current job descriptions are still appropriate for the work being performed. Isn't that the case? Then a new job description is made.
Function description
Carolien was informed in October that her activities match the job description of teaching assistant C (scale 6) and that she will be placed in a higher salary scale as of 1 November 2020. Despite the fact that Carolien is very happy with the higher job grade, she wonders whether her employer should not place her in the higher salary grade with retroactive effect from 1 August 2020. She has read in the collective labor agreement that the employer is obliged to update his job classification system for educational support staff and management before 1 August 2020.
She turns this question to the AOb. The legal assistant explains to Carolien that the social partners have agreed that due to the corona crisis, school boards may take a little longer, until 1 November 2020 at the latest, to update and revalue the job classification system, but on the condition that the employment conditions consequences with retroactive effect from 1 August 2020. Carolien submits the email with this explanation from the legal assistant to her employer. Fortunately for Carolien, the employer adjusts the salary retroactively.
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