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monday, October 29, 1979 daily nebraskan pegs 3 New wage system means equal pay for equal work By Alice Hrnicek Even though most UNI student employers have followed their own wage guidelines in the past, they agreed that the new wage classification system creates more uniformity across campus in wages for similar jobs. - The system, effective since the be ginning of the semester, calls for five classifications of student jobs dependent on skills, training and specific knowledge. Each classification has a different range of pay. With the help of a task force appointed in January, the Office of Scholarships and Financial Aids developed the standards to promote UNL as an Affirmative Action Equal Employment Opportunity Institut ion. OSFA Director Don Aripoli said that voluntary compliance to the guidelines is favored at this point. To ensure that de partments do not abuse the suggestions, however, OSFA has added a new staff per son who will consult with employers. Larry Apel, assistant director for on campus employment, not only will counsel students in seeking jobs, but will work with departments and report noncompliances to the Equal Employment Affirmative Action Officer and the Office of Civil Rights. Employers report few difficulties in following the guidelines. A concern shared by some is that they are not able to hire as many students, which results also from a lowering or non-increase in their budgets. HOUSING DIRECTOR Doug Zatechka said the move would help improve con sistency in wages across campus. "There's no reason why a rich division should be paying $4 an hour while a poor in the past, he said, so compliance has been relatively easy. "All we've done is to marry the new directives to the present structure," Zatechka said. Stephen Blom, University Health Center director, also said he has found it easy to follow the suggestions. Most of the 1 8 student employees at the health center fit into the level one cate gory, but one computer programmer is a level five which has a pay range from $3.80 to $4.60 per hour. The programmer is hired only for the semester. The chemistry department may be hurt by being able to hire electronic technicians, who are also at level five, on only a temporary basis, according to Chairman G C Meisels "OUR MONEY FOR hiring student's hasn't gone up in the last few years," Meisels said. "But the ones hired get paid more." The department offers mostly level one and two positions, he said, adding that he was ambivalent in his reaction to the program. "I'm not terribly in favor of over bureaucratization of anything," Meisels added. However, he said that the system was a plus in assuring equal pay for similar work. Union Director Daryl Swanson said that an on-campus wage' system has been neces sary. "There was one before, but it was not administered as widely," Swanson said. The present system is an improvement, because it gives some departments more leeway in rewarding students by pay raises while limiting overpayment, he said. In the past, students performed similar duties at a wide range of pay because the one pays $2.90 (for similar work)," he employing units were not brought to d . . , cca an gether, according to Swanson. Residence halls employ 550 to 630 stu- guidelines are especially important dents each year m 20 to 25 different for the unions because of the variety of positions, he said, None are employed in jobs headded level five, the top pay range category. . 'We depend on student employees, Housing has followed its own guidelines mucn like full time." cum- r i i M mm . . 7- ,C - . luosdcy, Oct. 30 IS itsai im 6 IV Erect o Spirited Special! 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