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'Application of job evaluation is not always correct'

The job evaluation system for support staff and board members in primary education is in order. The application still leaves much to be desired. 'Exemplary functions should not be taken over blindly.'

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This is reported by the Leeuwendaal consultancy in the report 'Investigation of jobs and remuneration in the primary education sector', which was commissioned by the trade unions and employers.

Leeuwendaal concludes that the system of job evaluation of support staff and board members is in order: it is quite possible to describe and rate their jobs in primary education.

Exemplary functions serve as inspirational material

However, the application of this job evaluation leaves much to be desired. For example, employees are too quickly assigned to the exemplary positions from the collective labor agreement, without checking whether these positions are in line with the practice in the school.

'Exemplary functions serve as inspirational material. They should not be adopted blindly, but should always be tested against the situation in the own organization', the researchers write. Also, the job description is not always communicated with the employee and some example jobs no longer fit in with the work.

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“We hammer it like AOb for some time now that school leaders, for example, are too blindly put in exemplary positions," responds AObdirector Thijs Roovers. "It's great that we are now going to look at this together with the employers."

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In addition, trade unions and employers will design an example scheme for rewarding teaching assistants who are structurally independent in the classroom. “We prefer to only see qualified teachers for a class. But if it does happen, unauthorized persons must be properly rewarded,” says Roovers. "They now do work in a much lower salary scale than that of a teacher, while they often bear full responsibility for a class. This makes it a revenue model."

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Trade unions and employers want to link this remuneration to further professionalisation. Roovers: “Because our starting point is and will remain that no one is unauthorized in front of the class. So neither do teaching assistants.”

Trade unions and employers have also agreed to develop reading guides to explain the use of the collective labor agreement functions. And a further explanation is drawn up about the operation and application of the job evaluation system.

Also read: 'Directors and support staff more often object to job evaluation'

Check the Collective labor agreement for primary education

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