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CareerTech board raises alarm about OMES 'harmonization' of job codes; director to pursue legislative options
Summary
Board members and the director warned that the Office of Management and Enterprise Services’ effort to standardize job families and pay bands could reclassify CareerTech roles, potentially reducing pay and harming recruitment; the director said she will pursue legislative options and asked board members to raise concerns with lawmakers.
During discussion of agency goals, Director Hagan warned the board that a state initiative to harmonize job families, descriptions and pay bands through the Office of Management and Enterprise Services (OMES) could undermine CareerTech’s ability to hire educators and program specialists.
"So the harmonization is pretty scary," Hagan said, explaining that OMES has sought to standardize job codes and job family types across state agencies. She cited a specific example staff had raised: an agency’s…
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