EC Work Description Writing
June 28, 2007
Last November, the Canadian Association of Professional Employees provided its ES and SI members with a document entitled EC Work Description Writing: CAPE’s Perspective, Part I. CAPE has been waiting for approval of the EC classification standard by Treasury Board ministers to release Part II, which contains information that was confidential. The Association is now posting Part II and an updated or revised Part I. Printed copies of these documents will be sent to each EC member before the end of July.
Each member will be made aware of his or her EC classification level by the employer in the Fall: this step in the conversion process is called the Advanced Personal Notification (APN). If a member has not been participating in the process of reviewing and rewriting her or his work description, the member should ask the appropriate manager to discuss the content of the work description during the period leading from the APN to the Official Personal Notification (OPN). The OPN will occur only after a new EC collective agreement has been ratified by EC members. It is anticipated that this will occur in the second half of 2008. Therefore, a member should have a period of several months to try to work out any disagreements with his or her supervisor on the matter of the content of the work description.
The EC work description will become effective only at the time of the OPN. It is at that time that members will be in a position to file an EC work description grievance and/or an EC classification grievance.
EC Work Description Writing
CAPE’s Perspective: Part I (revised) and Part II
June 28, 2007
Last November, the Canadian Association of Professional Employees provided its ES and SI members with a document entitled EC Work Description Writing: CAPE’s Perspective, Part I. CAPE has been waiting for approval of the EC classification standard by Treasury Board ministers to release Part II, which contains information that was confidential. The Association is now posting Part II and an updated or revised Part I. Printed copies of these documents will be sent to each EC member before the end of July.
Each member will be made aware of his or her EC classification level by the employer in the Fall: this step in the conversion process is called the Advanced Personal Notification (APN). If a member has not been participating in the process of reviewing and rewriting her or his work description, the member should ask the appropriate manager to discuss the content of the work description during the period leading from the APN to the Official Personal Notification (OPN). The OPN will occur only after a new EC collective agreement has been ratified by EC members. It is anticipated that this will occur in the second half of 2008. Therefore, a member should have a period of several months to try to work out any disagreements with his or her supervisor on the matter of the content of the work description.
The EC work description will become effective only at the time of the OPN. It is at that time that members will be in a position to file an EC work description grievance and/or an EC classification grievance.
EC Work Description Writing
CAPE’s Perspective: Part I (revised) and Part II