What is the OPS Job Evaluation Project (JEP)?
In the last round of collective bargaining in the Ontario Public Service, your bargaining team and the employer agreed to update the job classification system in the OPSEU bargaining unit. The union is calling this the OPS Job Evaluation Project, or JEP. Q2. Where in the collective agreement is the JEP discussed? Appendix 34 explains how the JEP will work. Q3. How will the JEP work? Working together as a Joint Working Group, the union and the employer are selecting a consultant specializing in job classification to help direct the process. The consultant and the parties will choose a group of benchmark job classes that represent the breadth of job classifications in the OPS. These job classes will then be evaluated based on the work each job actually requires. Once evaluated, the benchmark jobs will create a framework into which all OPS jobs can be carefully placed. Once all jobs have a place in the new framework, the union and the employer will negotiate pay rates for them in the next
