monday, October 29, 1979
daily nebraskan
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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."
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