Section 6-B1105. WAGE SERVICE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM

 

1105.1The classification or job-grading plan for Wage Service positions is that of the Coordinated Federal Wage System which was adopted for the District of Columbia Government by Order of the Commissioner No. 68-583, dated August 23, 1968.

 

1105.2The Wage Service job-grading system provides for an orderly grouping of all positions which is essential in establishing pay and in programs for recruiting, examining, placement, promotion, transfer, determining training needs, reduction in force, and performance ratings.

 

1105.3Upon determination that a position is subject to classification under the Wage Service System the position shall be evaluated in accordance with appropriate job-grading standards, or if none are directly applicable, with standards for the most nearly related occupations. Printing wage service positions are evaluated in accordance with Job Evaluation Standards published by the Interdepartmental Lithographic Wage Board, (ILWB).

 

1105.4The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) establishes and defines individual occupations. Generally, each occupation includes the inspector, leader and supervisory jobs and all levels of non-supervisory work. The boundaries of an occupation are determined by the set of basic skills and knowledge required to do the work. Each job family has a general occupational category designed to include lines of work characteristic of the job family but not identifiable with any specific occupation of the family, and lines of work with too few employees to merit treatment as separate occupations. The Handbook of Blue Collar Occupational Families and Series, issued by the OPM in October 1961, is the official guide for coding and identifying jobs until new codes and definitions are established.

 

1105.5Servicing Personnel Officers with delegated authority shall make initial determinations regarding positions covered by this Section. Questions regarding appropriateness of coverage shall be referred to the DCOP for decision. In the event there is still disagreement on coverage, the case may be referred to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) for final determination.

 

1105.6THE REGULAR WAGE SERVICE (RWS) includes all employees of the District of Columbia Government in recognized trades or crafts or other skilled mechanical crafts, or in unskilled, semi-skilled, or skilled manual labor occupations and other employees including foremen and supervisors in positions having trade, craft, or laboring experience or knowledge as the paramount requirement.

 

(a)The 39 key ranking jobs listed in Part 1, OPM Job Grading System for Trades and Labor Occupation provide the framework for the 15-grade nonsupervisory structure of the Coordinated Federal Wage System. These descriptions of commonly found kinds of nonsupervisory work serve as the pegpoints for determining the relative worth of different lines of work and leaves within lines of work. They control the alignment of the grade levels in all nonsupervisory job-grading standards. (Descriptions of key ranking jobs are not to be used in lieu of standards.)

 

(b)The OPM initiates special studies to ensure the currency of the key ranking jobs. Changes in key ranking jobs may be made if circumstances require it.

 

1105.7THE PRINTING WAGE SERVICE (PWS) includes all employees of the District of Columbia Government engaged in operation of printing equipment to accomplish lithographic processes involving platemaking, press operations, bindery assembly stripping, engraving, and photographic functions. The District of Columbia Government is an affiliate member of the Interdepartmental Lithographic Wage Board (IPWB) by letter to the District Government from the ILWB, dated October 15, 1958.

 

(a)The Interdepartmental Lithographic Wage Board develops and publishes standards which provide criteria for assigning grades and titles to jobs. (However, ILWB grades must be converted to the appropriate Printing Wage Service Grades.)

 

(b)The job evaluation standards are broken down into seven groups: Press Operating, Photographer, Film Assembly/Stripper, Platemaker, Bindery, Engraver, and Supervisory. Nonsupervisory standards summarize the job, showing typical work, typical products, and typical presses or other equipment.

 

1105.8WAGE SERVICE employees in the District of Columbia Government may appeal the title, series, job family, occupational coding, or grade according to procedures established in section 1110 below. However, the Wage Service appeal must first have been adjudicated by the D.C. Office of Personnel. Detailed information regarding Wage Service appeals is found in the District Personnel Manual issued by DCOP.

 

1105.9The OPM is the central coordinating and control agency for the administration of the Coordinated Federal Wage System, the system adopted by the D.C. Government. It is also the central developmental agency for elements of the system which are needed to supplement the basic system. Regulations are issued as necessary to ensure consistent practices among those agencies under the system.

 

1105.10The D.C. Office of Personnel makes determinations as to coverage, applicability and procedural application of this section.